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Yo uso Git con Visual Studio 2010 y por alguna razón, se me coló e fichero <fichero>.sln.docstates, aunque lo agregué al fichero .gitignore, siempre seguía apareciendo en el control de cambios. Cuando sólo se ha agregado en el último commit, la sulución es muy simple...

$ git rm --cached \*.sln.docstates 

Pero una vez que aparece en otros commits, la solución es removerlo de todos los commits, la siguiente receta hace el trabajo.

Suppose you want to remove a file (containing confidential information or copyright violation) from all commits:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm filename' HEAD

However, if the file is absent from the tree of some commit, a simple rm filename will fail for that tree and commit. Thus you may instead want to use rm -f filename as the script.

Using --index-filter with git rm yields a significantly faster version. Like with using rm filename,git rm --cached filename will fail if the file is absent from the tree of a commit. If you want to "completely forget" a file, it does not matter when it entered history, so we also add --ignore-unmatch:

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename' HEAD

A fix for Synctoy 'failed to create the provider' error message

If you use Synctoy, and you install Samsung Kies Software, you may be in the same boat as me.