title: git track, ignore, delete, untrack
body: <p>I seem to have ballsed up my git repo by tracking a file, later ignoring it and then deleting it. The thing is, I want the file to be present in a remote repository (the live site), but just don't want to track. </p>
  
  <p>Now my master branch is trying to remove all the files from the repository, which I know will delete them on the remote branch when I push changes... I just want to untrack them, but cannot do that as they're already deleted on master and git rm -r --cached says 'did not match any files'.</p>
  
  <p>How can I untrack these deleted files without removing them from the remote repository?</p>