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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: Peter Lauri <peterlauri@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .gitignore behavior on Mac
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 23:01:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5197EC19.8080806@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130518185507.GI27005@serenity.lan>

Am 18.05.2013 20:55, schrieb John Keeping:
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:43:57PM +0200, Peter Lauri wrote:
>> But I just don't want to see that darn file. It is a config file that
>> I have changed, and I don't want to need to stash it for each "git
>> svn" action I want to perform... Any solution for that?
> 
> Read about --assume-unchanged in git-update-index(1).

Beware!! --assume-unchanged is a promise not to modify a file, but that
is not true in this case, because it *was* modified. It might hide the
file from the git-status output, but then git might do something
unexpected sometimes, because a promise was not kept.

See last paragraph of
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/146353

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-18 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-18 18:36 .gitignore behavior on Mac Peter Lauri
2013-05-18 18:41 ` John Keeping
2013-05-18 18:43   ` Peter Lauri
2013-05-18 18:55     ` John Keeping
2013-05-18 21:01       ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2013-05-18 22:37         ` Peter Lauri
2013-05-19  7:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-05-19 10:54           ` Antony Male

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