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.gitignore not

Subject: .gitignore not

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John M. Dlugosz· May 1, 2012, 01:58 UTC · lore

I'm running on Windows, using msysgit. I have some files that were supposed to be symbolic links, but don't come out that way. I see them as plain files containing a relative name of another file. To make things work, I copied the actual file over the would-be link. I don't want to check in that change.

I set up a .gitignore, and it works for the directory in general, but three files that were symbolic links it keeps finding anyway: deleted symlink (for those that were directories) and binary files don't match (for a file). Even though those are under the directory I excluded with the .gitignore, it reports those anyway.

How do I tell my local copy of git to really ignore those? I don't want to stage it by accident.

—John

Junio C Hamano· May 1, 2012, 04:28 UTC · re: John M. Dlugosz · lore

Re: .gitignore not

"John M. Dlugosz" <ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com> writes:

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> I'm running on Windows, using msysgit.  I have some files that were
> supposed to be symbolic links, but don't come out that way.  I see
> them as plain files containing a relative name of another file.  To
> make things work, I copied the actual file over the would-be link.  I
> don't want to check in that change.
>
> I set up a .gitignore, and it works for the directory in general, but
> three files that were symbolic links it keeps finding anyway: deleted
> symlink (for those that were directories) and binary files don't match
> (for a file).  Even though those are under the directory I excluded
> with the .gitignore, it reports those anyway.
>
> How do I tell my local copy of git to really ignore those?  I don't
> want to stage it by accident.

Perhaps --assume-unchanged?