I have a GitHub repo where I keep mainly .tex
files, with Makefiles that compile all of the files to create .pdf
s. On this repo, the .gitignore
file serves to ignore some compilation files related to this, most notably the .pdf
s themselves. Now I also have some files that aren't the result of compiling the .tex
files, and should therefore not be ignored by git
. I recently added some code (using the minted
package) in my .tex
files that creates compilation files of two certain types, namely .pygstyle
and .pygtex
. These files are files I don't want to keep in the repo, hence I added them to my .gitignore
--after already adding them in a previous commit :(.
I'd like to find the commands I'd have to type in order to rebase this branch in a way that doesn't remove all files in the .gitignore
from source control, seen as there are some .pdf
s that I'd like to keep, but the compilation files I mentioned above should be ignored.
I tried rebasing the normal way, only to find out about those lost files that couldn't be ignored; ever since, I've been aimlessly rebasing onto new branches, with little to no success.
Ideally, there would be a way to retroactively apply the .gitignore
file to the commits introducing the "naughty files", without removing other files that were manually added to bypass the .gitignore
.
I thought about not using rebase (for example by simply applying the .gitignore
to a subset of all the files), but I'd like to keep it clean and use git rebase
instead.