From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: first para of man gitignore should refer to 'git rm --cached'
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:44:27 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101107191425.GA32302@kytes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim=QCcJDb0600Je-jePvXSXfFMe7FAQ0WMhZKn7@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Sitaram,
Sitaram Chamarty writes:
> It's an FAQ that "why doesn't my gitignore work" when the files in
> question had already been added earlier, usually in error. The most
> common remedy, I believe, is "git rm --cached" followed by a commit.
Er, no. The documentation says "in order to ignore uncommitted changes
in already tracked files". `git rm --cached` removes the file from the
index altogether- when the change is committed, Git will actually stop
tracking it.
> "update-index" does not seem to be the right answer.
>From the update-index documentation assume-unchanged section, "This
option can be also used as a coarse file-level mechanism to ignore
uncommitted changes in tracked files (akin to what .gitignore does for
untracked files)". It seems to be right.
-- Ram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-07 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-07 18:37 first para of man gitignore should refer to 'git rm --cached' Sitaram Chamarty
2010-11-07 19:14 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2010-11-08 4:46 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2010-11-08 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-11-09 19:20 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2010-11-09 19:29 ` Jonathan Nieder
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