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Hello. I just can not configure such a thing: I have a file in the php project with a connection to the database. It stores data for this connection, that is, a host, password, etc. I would not want this data to be in the git repository, but the file itself should be there with other data. I tried to first add a file with false data to the repository, and then exclude it from tracking, but, I understand. that if the file already exists in the remote repository, then you cannot remove it from the index? Or how to do it?

Reported as a duplicate by rjhdby , Sasha Omelchenko , ermak0ff , AK ♦ , Denis Bubnov on Mar 13 '17 at 10:46 .

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git rm file_name

Then prescribe it in .gitignore

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