"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: > However the man page's statement 'When the "assume unchanged" bit is on, > Git stops checking the working tree files for possible modifications, so > you need to manually unset the bit to tell Git when you change the working > tree file.' can easily be understood the way Sergio has described. Git > stops checking so it won't notice any changes, which is a contract it > doesn't keep. The contract is: when you change the working tree file, you must tell Git about it. Failure to do so is a breach of the contract. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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