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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 23, 2015, 19:31 UTC
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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".
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