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Re: Ignore on commit

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Oct 5, 2012, 01:35 UTC
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On 5 October 2012 03:00, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5 October 2012 07:20, Marco Craveiro <marco.craveiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> Similar but not quite; the idea is that you know that there is some
>> code (I'm just talking about files here, so lets ignore hunks for the
>> moment) which is normally checked in but for a period of time you want
>> it ignored. So you don't want it git ignored but at the same time you
>> don't want to see these files in the list of modified files.
>
> What is the reason git ignore is no good in this case? Is it simply
> that you can't see the ignored files in git status, or is it that
> adding and removing entries to .gitignore is too cumbersome? If it's
> the latter you could probably put together a simple shell wrapper to
> automate the task, as otherwise it seems like git ignore does what you
> need.
Git ignore doesn't ignore tracked files.
Yves
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  1. Marco CraveiroOct 4, 2012
  2. Pascal ObryOct 4, 2012
  3. Marco CraveiroOct 4, 2012
  4. Andrew WongOct 4, 2012
  5. Andrew ArdillOct 5, 2012
  6. demerphqOct 5, 2012
  7. Sitaram ChamartyOct 5, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2012
  9. Andrew ArdillOct 5, 2012
  10. Marco CraveiroOct 5, 2012
  11. Philip OakleyOct 5, 2012
  12. Pascal ObryOct 5, 2012

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