On 5 October 2012 03:00, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5 October 2012 07:20, Marco Craveiro <marco.craveiro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ... >> Similar but not quite; the idea is that you know that there is some >> code (I'm just talking about files here, so lets ignore hunks for the >> moment) which is normally checked in but for a period of time you want >> it ignored. So you don't want it git ignored but at the same time you >> don't want to see these files in the list of modified files. > > What is the reason git ignore is no good in this case? Is it simply > that you can't see the ignored files in git status, or is it that > adding and removing entries to .gitignore is too cumbersome? If it's > the latter you could probably put together a simple shell wrapper to > automate the task, as otherwise it seems like git ignore does what you > need. Git ignore doesn't ignore tracked files. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/" -- 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