From: Pazu Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:55:32 GMT Subject: Re: Ignoring local changes Message-ID: <9e7ab7380612140855p1f4ee6c1l5ef24c4d1d169da6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45817F8A.3050701@op5.se> 2006/12/14, Andreas Ericsson : > Correction: I just tested this, and while git-add won't touch the file, > git-update-index will, and git-status still shows it as modified. Yes, and that's exactly my problems. There are a number of modified/removed files in my working copy that were previously added to the repository, and git-status shows them as modified/removed, even when they're listed in .gitignore or .git/info/exclude > This feels like a bug to me. Dunno, sounds like this is by design. I acknowledge that my situation is unusual, and most often, you'll want to always track a file once it's been added to the repository.