Git issue

Hello Git

Not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but here it is.

I frequently use the following command to ignore changes done in a file

git update-index --assume-unchanged somefile

Now when I do a pull from my remote branch and say the file 'somefile' was changed locally and in remote, git will abort the merge saying I need to commit my changes of 'somefile'.

But isn't the whole point of the above command to ignore the changes within the file?

Thanks Faiz Halde