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Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
May 18, 2013, 21:01 UTC
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<5197EC19.8080806@kdbg.org>
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<20130518185507.GI27005@serenity.lan>
Am 18.05.2013 20:55, schrieb John Keeping:
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> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:43:57PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:
>> But I just don't want to see that darn file. It is a config file that
>> I have changed, and I don't want to need to stash it for each "git
>> svn" action I want to perform... Any solution for that?
> 
> Read about --assume-unchanged in git-update-index(1).

Beware!! --assume-unchanged is a promise not to modify a file, but that is not true in this case, because it *was* modified. It might hide the file from the git-status output, but then git might do something unexpected sometimes, because a promise was not kept.

See last paragraph of http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/146353

-- Hannes
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  3. Peter LauriMay 18, 2013
  4. John KeepingMay 18, 2013
  5. Johannes SixtMay 18, 2013
  6. Peter LauriMay 18, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2013
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