Re: git pull not ignoring the file which has been sent to the temporary ignore list

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2015, 20:12 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbk=DFcMSVtnWHw7Vn-xm4q4x5T_9qiPrqt5oN1DMhFSw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4004424.cytMaov38D@linux-wzza.site>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Arup Rakshit <aruprakshit@rocketmail.com> wrote:

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> On Friday, January 23, 2015 11:31:40 AM you wrote:
>> Arup Rakshit <aruprakshit@rocketmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I asked git not to track any changes to the file .gitignore. To do
>> > so I did use the command - git update-index --assume-unchanged
>> > .gitignore.
>>
>> You are not asking Git to do anything. You promised Git that you
>> will make no changes to .gitignore, and then broke that promise.
>>
>> Assume-unchanged is *not* "Ignore changes to this path".
>
> Ok. How should I then ignore any local changes to the .gitignore file ? And while taking pull, git should skip this file ?

Look at .git/info/exclude

When looking for a reference to that path (I am bad at remembering
which man page that is)
I found https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/ as Googles
first hit, which advises to use
    git update-index --assume-unchanged path/to/file.txt
Not sure if that is most helpful advice there.

See http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore instead