From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 04:28:18 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore not
Message-ID: <7vd36ocyot.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <29965-1335837520-563867@sneakemail.com>

"John M. Dlugosz" <ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com> writes:

> 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?