Hi Sitaram, Sitaram Chamarty writes: > It's an FAQ that "why doesn't my gitignore work" when the files in > question had already been added earlier, usually in error. The most > common remedy, I believe, is "git rm --cached" followed by a commit. Er, no. The documentation says "in order to ignore uncommitted changes in already tracked files". `git rm --cached` removes the file from the index altogether- when the change is committed, Git will actually stop tracking it. > "update-index" does not seem to be the right answer. >From the update-index documentation assume-unchanged section, "This option can be also used as a coarse file-level mechanism to ignore uncommitted changes in tracked files (akin to what .gitignore does for untracked files)". It seems to be right. -- Ram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html