Why doesn't .gitignore work?

Question

git

Why doesn't .gitignore work? -Added *json
exceptions in the file admin_list.json users_data.json But with git pull the changes are still downloaded. I would like not to touch these files, and update the rest (.py)

Answer 1

gitignore works a little differently. It specifies files that you would like to change locally, but would not want to upload to git.
And if something has changed in the git, you must get it to yourself with git pull

Answer 2

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
> A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected