From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git pull not ignoring the file which has been sent to the temporary ignore list Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:31:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: <3278910.5D06XWKxyS@linux-wzza.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Arup Rakshit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 23 20:31:51 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEjxO-0003GV-JC for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:31:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754411AbbAWTbr (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:31:47 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:55804 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752890AbbAWTbp (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:31:45 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCB030A3A; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:31:45 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=/aQUMuT8EvWKyxS6B2fSrZ6z7O0=; b=QrkJQR EgpC4mhJ+FkbGwHFMmGUWNeawiVIJXnsMTsv4Mu/yeqDxdHyR4B/Pvm5vyaUs//v v+xLUkv6eKvULlMItYXivEu5nxvMYSnutUs/8ixJyiNVkKS8rh7IWsuo6ZIZjNvZ jZELJkgaJFHSisInqxf+pYkRXRyac0DSXRD2I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=yXzrA1xKndSKLktzRv5THmakfYwop57+ owOqjVUzjaf81BUqZs2VVFN2xrei0egwHlsFJoodbhD3DqJGbBhTlyOX+xpBRigE iaTohq/EmLC+gNM3PT1hK3B4rN6+wjbeGGL0YcC1SXfAVU3eUbE38nIsvVwCUS7k h+gP5g6ECRg= Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 003E830A39; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:31:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9828030A32; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:31:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <3278910.5D06XWKxyS@linux-wzza.site> (Arup Rakshit's message of "Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:57:30 +0630") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 751C81FA-A336-11E4-B70A-7BA29F42C9D4-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Arup Rakshit 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".