Hi Elijah, Matt
On 30/08/2019 16:21, Elijah Newren wrote:
* If the changes are to files that are tracked, AND you aren't making
changes to those same files that do need to be committed and pushed,
use the assume-unchanged bit (see git-update-index(1)).
Not sure I parsed that well but...
The `assume-unchanged bit` is commonly miss-construed as a promise by
Git that it will ignore changes to the file.
That is incorrect. The bit is a promise by the _user_ that they won't
change the file, so that, in general Git stops checking for updates to
the file.
However it will check for updates sometimes, leading to unexpected
effects if the user has the wrong mental model, thinking that Git would
ignore their changes...
Philip
