Git Exclude files from commit?

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Guys, such a question.
We have an online store and it has 1 million pictures. Added upload folder to gitignore. But there is another folder delete_file_old, it is also listed in gitignore, but all the same, files from it end up in the index.
If specifically on the example.
This is how we specify a folder, a piece of gitignore.

We counted the number of files that will be added to git. (git count-objects -v )

We began to look at what files are added there (git log --name-only > ttt.txt)
The result of git log is written to a file, for convenience.
And we see that we have a lot of pictures, an example file:
delete_file_old/0183737bc93efeac6e02557f0bc69e68.png
delete_file_old/0183cadb700868ef1f14e0f1e9b89aa1.png
delete_file_old / 01858d6741c3a5aba027dd6071ec83d3.png
delete_file_old / 0186c5a343b8d06d60ef25fae88e6654.png
delete_file_old / 0186f3208b62c41dc0c8e2184ace1ee0.png
delete_file_old / 018718f866277cbd4bb82dfea5fea324.png
delete_file_old / 018735274f618858c33b6dac1bfcb91f.png
How do we fix it, if at all gitignore already added?

Answer 1

First you need gitignore and then the files.
Temporarily move delete_file_old, commit, then you can add them again.
Can be through

git rm -r --cached .
git add .
git commit -m ".gitignore"