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Re: .gitignore not

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 1, 2012, 04:28 UTC
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"John M. Dlugosz" <ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com> writes:
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> I'm running on Windows, using msysgit.  I have some files that were
> supposed to be symbolic links, but don't come out that way.  I see
> them as plain files containing a relative name of another file.  To
> make things work, I copied the actual file over the would-be link.  I
> don't want to check in that change.
>
> I set up a .gitignore, and it works for the directory in general, but
> three files that were symbolic links it keeps finding anyway: deleted
> symlink (for those that were directories) and binary files don't match
> (for a file).  Even though those are under the directory I excluded
> with the .gitignore, it reports those anyway.
>
> How do I tell my local copy of git to really ignore those?  I don't
> want to stage it by accident.
Perhaps --assume-unchanged?
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