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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore.txt: do not suggest assume-unchanged
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 17:06:58 -0800
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Michael J Gruber wrote:

> git-update-index --assume-unchanged was never meant to ignore changes
> to tracked files (only to spare some stats). So do not suggest it
> as a means to achieve that.
[...]
> +++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
> @@ -138,9 +138,6 @@ NOTES
>  The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files
>  not tracked by Git remain untracked.
>  
> -To ignore uncommitted changes in a file that is already tracked,
> -use 'git update-index {litdd}assume-unchanged'.
> -
>  To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use
>  'git rm --cached'.

Makes sense.

But we need some advice to replace the paragraph you are deleting.  Is
the idea something like

	Git will not ignore uncommitted changes in a file that is already tracked.
	If you have time to work on that, please contact git@vger.kernel.org.

(perhaps without that second line)?

Thanks,
Jonathan