Re: Any way to ignore a change to a tracked file when committing/merging?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:47:33AM -0400, David Watson wrote:
> I've got a problem, or maybe annoyance is more the proper term, that I 
> haven't seen solved by any SCM system (at least not to my knowledge). 
> Basically, I may make some changes, e.g. to a Makefile or somesuch, that 
> I want to ignore when looking at what's changed from the repository. The 
> only problem is, the file I've modified is already under version control, 
> so .gitignore doesn't do anything.
> 
> Now, I can commit it, so it will stop bugging me, but then when I push 
> out it will include that change, unless I back it out. This is a change 
> that I don't want propagated anywhere else, because it's specific to my 
> machine or development sandbox.
> 
> Is there any way to do this? I'd really love to use git-commit -a in this 
> situation, and I could hack up a script to undo my change, run git-commit 
> -a, and reapply the change, but makes me a bit squirmy. If I could put 
> something in a .git config file to say "commit 237ab should not be 
> propagated under any circumstances", that would be fantastic.

  please read the thread [ pull into dirty working tree ] that is just
about this, and like errr 2 threads before yours.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

Attachment: pgp3zhElYb157.pgp
Description: PGP signature


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]

  Powered by Linux