Gitignore not working (reason found) using gitextensions in visual studio

Question

I use gitextensions in visual studio 2010, and apparently I added a bunch of files to my repository that I did not want to track. Later I edited the gitignore file to try to exclude them, but now I understand that this will not delete the already added files that are now part of gitignore.

I found this discussion on how to delete files that I don’t want to track: Ignore files that have already been linked to the Git repository

But I would like to see if there is a way to do this using gitextensions instead of the command line?

Answer 1

There is no way to do this in git extensions. Use the command line. Anyway, everything is better and faster. You get bash functionality, command history, and much more that you throw out of the window when you use the IDE interface for VCS.