On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, David Watson wrote: > It appears that only applies to untracked files. I am specifically interested > in ignoring changes to files that are already tracked, unless I'm > misunderstanding what you're suggesting. I just built the most recent git from > repo.or.cz/git, and did the following: > > * edit the file I want to "ignore" > git-status shows this file as modified > > * edit .git/config, set core.excludesfile to myexcludes, containing the name > of the file I want > * git add -u > * git-status > shows the file I edited as ready to be committed. I suppose that the behavior of git-add could be modified to honnor the exclude pattern even for already tracked files. Such change would make sense to me. Nicolas - 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