# .gitignore not 2 messages from 2012-05-01 to 2012-05-01. Participants: John M. Dlugosz, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/30377 ## John M. Dlugosz, 2012-05-01 01:58 Subject: .gitignore not Message-ID: <29965-1335837520-563867@sneakemail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/29965-1335837520-563867%40sneakemail.com ``` 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, 2012-05-01 04:28 Subject: Re: .gitignore not Message-ID: <7vd36ocyot.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vd36ocyot.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <29965-1335837520-563867@sneakemail.com> ``` "John M. Dlugosz" writes: > 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? ```