From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "John M. Dlugosz" <ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: .gitignore not
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:28:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd36ocyot.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29965-1335837520-563867@sneakemail.com> (John M. Dlugosz's message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:58:16 -0500")
"John M. Dlugosz" <ngnr63q02@sneakemail.com> writes:
> I'm running on Windows, using msysgit. I have some files that were
> supposed to be symbolic links, but don't come out that way. I see
> them as plain files containing a relative name of another file. To
> make things work, I copied the actual file over the would-be link. I
> don't want to check in that change.
>
> I set up a .gitignore, and it works for the directory in general, but
> three files that were symbolic links it keeps finding anyway: deleted
> symlink (for those that were directories) and binary files don't match
> (for a file). Even though those are under the directory I excluded
> with the .gitignore, it reports those anyway.
>
> How do I tell my local copy of git to really ignore those? I don't
> want to stage it by accident.
Perhaps --assume-unchanged?
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2012-05-01 1:58 .gitignore not John M. Dlugosz
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