Removing accidental commits

Example code:

git rm -r --cached node_modules/
git rm -r --cached .astro

# More examples
git rm -r --cached <folder>/
git rm --cached <file>
git rm --cached "*.<ext>"
git rm -r --cached .

# Commit the changes
git add .gitignore
git commit -m "chore: remove node_modules and .astro from tracking"
git push

.gitignore (to prevent the same thing from happening in the future):

# Ignores ONLY folders named "dist" 
dist/ 

# Ignores specific files 
.env 
secret-keys.txt 

# Ignores ANY file ending in .log 
*.log