Force git to Update After Changing gitignore

February 19, 2020 • #Bash #CLI #git

After making changes to your .gitignore file, you can force git to update by clearing the git cache then staging and committing all files.

# Clear git cache
$ git rm -r --cached .

# Stage files
$ git add .

# Commit everything
$ git commit -m "Updating .gitignore"