"John M. Dlugosz" <ngnr63q02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm running on Windows, using msysgit. I have some files that were > supposed to be symbolic links, but don't come out that way. I see > them as plain files containing a relative name of another file. To > make things work, I copied the actual file over the would-be link. I > don't want to check in that change. > > I set up a .gitignore, and it works for the directory in general, but > three files that were symbolic links it keeps finding anyway: deleted > symlink (for those that were directories) and binary files don't match > (for a file). Even though those are under the directory I excluded > with the .gitignore, it reports those anyway. > > How do I tell my local copy of git to really ignore those? I don't > want to stage it by accident. Perhaps --assume-unchanged? -- 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