Re: Any way to ignore a change to a tracked file when committing/merging?

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jun 13, 2007, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0706131349430.1697@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <477C424C-009F-46BF-85D4-A0D777FE3CEC@mimvista.com>

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, David Watson wrote:

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> Because git-commit -a is nice to use, especially if I really want to check in
> all the files, *except a particular set that is always the same*. Having to
> specify the files every time gets old pretty quick.
> 
> If I could do this:
> 
> $ git-commit -a --exclude=somefile
> 
> that would be very useful. Or even, if I could set a file in my .git folder
> that would be an exclude list, then I could run something like
> 
> $ git-commit -a --use-excludes
> 
> I suppose the answer is to create the patch myself.

Well, before that I'd suggest you have a look at the git-add man page, especially the -u flag and the core.excludesfile config option.

Nicolas