From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:19:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Any way to ignore a change to a tracked file when committing/merging?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0706131417320.1697@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <6D50717E-7FB2-48EE-9B56-42B658ACAD10@mimvista.com>

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, David Watson wrote:

> It appears that only applies to untracked files. I am specifically interested
> in ignoring changes to files that are already tracked, unless I'm
> misunderstanding what you're suggesting. I just built the most recent git from
> repo.or.cz/git, and did the following:
> 
> * edit the file I want to "ignore"
> git-status shows this file as modified
> 
> * edit .git/config, set core.excludesfile to myexcludes, containing the name
> of the file I want
> * git add -u
> * git-status
> shows the file I edited as ready to be committed.

I suppose that the behavior of git-add could be modified to honnor the 
exclude pattern even for already tracked files.  Such change would make 
sense to me.


Nicolas