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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: first para of man gitignore should refer to 'git rm --cached'
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:44:27 +0530
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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