From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Jensen Subject: Re: getting git to ignore modifications to specific files Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:06:33 -0600 Message-ID: <4C7EA439.2000901@workspacewhiz.com> References: <4C7EA1FF.8030307@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Chris Packham X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 01 21:06:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqsdu-0006aF-Lm for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:06:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754791Ab0IATGh (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:06:37 -0400 Received: from hsmail.qwknetllc.com ([208.71.137.138]:44759 "EHLO hsmail.qwknetllc.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754397Ab0IATGg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:06:36 -0400 Received: (qmail 14763 invoked by uid 399); 1 Sep 2010 13:06:36 -0600 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.2?) (jjensen@workspacewhiz.com@75.196.133.190) by hsmail.qwknetllc.com with ESMTPAM; 1 Sep 2010 13:06:36 -0600 X-Originating-IP: 75.196.133.190 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <4C7EA1FF.8030307@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Packham Date: 9/1/2010 12:57 PM > I did a bit of googling and found > git update-index --assume-unchanged > > Which works locally to stop git status from complaining. Is there anyway > for me to make a change to our clone (a .gitattribues entry?) so that > everyone can get this by default? I don't think so (but I hope I'm wrong!). Good idea, though. +1 from me for being necessary. Josh