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Re: git pull not ignoring the file which has been sent to the temporary ignore list

From
Arup Rakshit <aruprakshit@rocketmail.com>
Date
Jan 23, 2015, 18:35 UTC
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On Friday, January 23, 2015 11:31:40 AM you wrote:
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> Arup Rakshit <aruprakshit@rocketmail.com> 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".
Ok. How should I then ignore any local changes to the .gitignore file ? And while taking pull, git should skip this file ?
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