Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Ignoring Previously Committed Files

This video tutorial explains how to manage files in a Git repository, focusing on committing, ignoring, and recreating files. It demonstrates two methods to ignore files: deleting them from the repository or using the 'git rm --cached' command to keep them in the working directory. The tutorial also covers how to find gitignore templates for different programming languages.

What is the purpose of modifying the .gitignore file?

What happens to the file after executing the command 'git rm --cached '?