.gitignore Isn’t the Only Way To Ignore Files in Git

if you're using lazygit. You can do i -> e on files to add the path to .git/info/exclude. pretty nice if you have something you want to keep outside of the git index without changing the .gitignore

There’s also the “out of sight out of mind” approach

git config --global alias.status '!git status | grep -v myfile.txt