Re: Ignoring local changes

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torsdag 13 september 2007 skrev Pazu:
> Andreas Ericsson <ae <at> op5.se> writes:
> 
> > Pazu wrote:
> > > Is there any way to make git completely ignore changes to certain
> > > local files? I know about .gitignore, but that doesn't work when
> > > the files I want to ignore were already added to the repository.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes it does. Just add the file to .gitignore and it won't be noticed
> > anymore.
> > 
> > Correction: I just tested this, and while git-add won't touch the file, 
> > git-update-index will, and git-status still shows it as modified.
> > 
> > This feels like a bug to me.
> 
> Following up to a very old thread: how the situation described above stands
> today? I've been away from git for a while, so I don't know if anything changed
> recently about this. In short: I want a way to make 'git status' and 'git commit
> -a' ignore some files, even if they're already added to the repository.
> 
> My upstream repository (managed by SVN; imported to git using git-svn) contains
> many files that are spuriously changed by IDE's and other tools, so they will
> almost aways show up as modified by git, and yet, 99% of the time I don't want
> to commit them. It's a pain to go through that huge list of files in 'git
> status' to add stage only one or two files for commit.

Try 

git update-index --assume-unchanged file...

-- robin
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