From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:31:40 GMT
Subject: Re: git pull not ignoring the file which has been sent to the temporary ignore list
Message-ID: <xmqqiofxqoo3.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <3278910.5D06XWKxyS@linux-wzza.site>

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".