From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:41:03 GMT
Subject: Re: How to exclude files from "git diff"
Message-ID: <7vvdfgxum8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <6dc9ffc81001051015x3bebc994r3d475bdb59e12d39@mail.gmail.com>

"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:20 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, I want those files in repository. They are for my personal use only.
>>
>> If you modified some file locally and do not want to see and commit
>> those modifications, you may want to use:
>>
>> git update-index --assume-unchanged foo
>>
>
> I added those files into my repository for bookkeeping purpose. It
> shouldn't go out at all.

Sounds like time to run "rm --cached" to me.  IOW, keep it untracked.