Ignoring changes in orienteer.properties file - OrienteerBAP/Orienteer GitHub Wiki
File orienteer.properties (and orienteer-test.properties) is tracked file, but for local development it's useful to modify that file. There is a useful trick in git:
git update-index --assume-unchanged orienteer.properties
If you will decide to commit changes, just execute this:
git update-index --no-assume-unchanged orienteer.properties