How to stop tracking a file in git?

Question

git

There is a file that is tracked in git, you need to make sure that after a certain point it stops being tracked in git. Those. those changes that exist today should be visible to the git, and should be displayed in the project, and all subsequent changes should not be displayed in the git, but be present in the project. How to do it?

Answer 1

Push the desired version of the file to the repository once, and then add the path and name of this file to .gitignore

Answer 2

git rm --cache example.txt