How to exclude files from git without committing changes to gitignore?
Run into the annoying problem of git complaining about unstaged changes that you just cannot commit for whatever reason. A quick way to get around this issue is add those files/folders to .gitignore But then you need to commit that file as well. That's so painful, huh?
Alternative is to add these files to .git/info/exclude that allows to ignore files from being staged. Yay! Problem solved.
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