I created a new branch in my git repo and I'd like to not have to copy and paste in all of my gitignored files every time I switch branches. is there a way to save a file to the repo but just not have it show on github or is this just one of those things?

CodePudding user response：

Since git is ignoring those files, they'll stay around as you switch branches.

CodePudding user response：

I don't know why I had to do this but I just ran:

git rm --cached <file>

for each file I needed hidden, rewrote them in .gitignore, and it worked how it was supposed to after that.