LINUX, Open Source | Git: How to add an untracked file back to the repository?

If you want to add certain files that was previously removed from Git repository, follow the steps given below.

STEP 1: remove the file reference in .gitignore

STEP 2: remove the cached reference from git.

$ git rm –cached sampleconfig.txt

STEP 3: add the file to Git repository

$ git add sampleconfig.txt

$ git commit -am “Adding sampleconfig back to git commit”