From: Marco Craveiro <marco.craveiro@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:09:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Ignore on commit
Message-ID: <CAKRNd4w1LPEBxhfRNzSwwFDQen_Sif+EYQXcAxnJPP6GU-Q5nw@mail.gmail.com>
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<git update-index --assume-unchanged>
> From the help page:
>
> --assume-unchanged, --no-assume-unchanged
>     ...
>
>     This option can be also used as a coarse file-level mechanism to
> ignore uncommitted changes in tracked files (akin to what .gitignore
>     does for untracked files).
>
> Seems like it does everything required. I tested and it correctly
> hides changes that I want hidden. The only thing I can't see how to do
> is get git status to show files with the assume unchanged  bit set. I
> think there is no way currently, but that might be a nice addition to
> make the initial request feature complete. It could show either all
> files with the bit set, or files with the bit set that have been
> changed (or this could be configurable).

This is indeed the solution outlined in [4] on my original post:

http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/02/18/temporarily-ignoring-files.html

The presence in git status is quite important or else one has to
change the regular workflow with a second status command.

Cheers

Marco
-- 
So young, and already so unknown -- Pauli

blog: http://mcraveiro.blogspot.com