Everything started when I started seeing .DS_Store populating every time I neeeded to performing a git push for my github account.

I created a file named dist.tar in my folder and I am having trouble because when I do ls it now populates.

Now every time I do a git status I get a message

Untracked files: (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) dist.tar

I am trying to delete this dist.tar file, so I can get my code working with the git push and uploaded my index.htlm on github.com in my repository files.

I am very confused and don't know how to delete that file.

CodePudding user response：

You can add dist.tar to your .gitignore file. So your .gitignore file will have something like this:

#ignore dist.tar
dist.tar

CodePudding user response：

To delete the file from the local folder. Execute command rm dist.tar in your terminal.

To remove the file from git tracking, create a file named .gitignore and add dist.tar to the .gitignore file

#ignore unneeded files
dist.tar