title: How do I move an unstaged file to untracked?
body: <p>Say this is what I'm looking at in git status:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Changes not staged for commit:
      modified:   Makefile.in
  
  Untracked files:
     ../node_modules/somepath/inverter_packet.js
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I want to do is something like move Makefile.in from 'Changes not staged for commit' to 'Untracked files.'</p>
  
  <p>I know I can ignore changes with <code>git update-index --assume-unchanged Makefile.in</code>, and get them back with the <code>--no-assume-unchanged</code> command, but I'd rather not have these files completely out-of-view, because I do edit/commit them once in a while.</p>
  
  <p>I want to remove files from the 'not staged' section, but still see it when I type <code>git status</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Alternately, if I could (preferably simply) stop showing the diff for unstaged files (e.g. like my Makefile.in up there) when typing <code>git diff</code>, that would also be good.</p>