Arup Rakshit <aruprakshit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I asked git not to track any changes to the file .gitignore. To do > so I did use the command - git update-index --assume-unchanged > .gitignore. You are not asking Git to do anything. You promised Git that you will make no changes to .gitignore, and then broke that promise. Assume-unchanged is *not* "Ignore changes to this path". -- 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