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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
To: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>,
	Marco Craveiro <marco.craveiro@gmail.com>,
	pascal@obry.net, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ignore on commit
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 07:50:11 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_jfdW3BepELgPPoUf3qWwmU-o3o8OpMVimdfkERUJkymQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANgJU+XSYWObCsGVnWwaaSB9iZQnfU_y095uzEm5-YXMaUoU_w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:05 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 October 2012 03:00, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5 October 2012 07:20, Marco Craveiro <marco.craveiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Similar but not quite; the idea is that you know that there is some
>>> code (I'm just talking about files here, so lets ignore hunks for the
>>> moment) which is normally checked in but for a period of time you want
>>> it ignored. So you don't want it git ignored but at the same time you
>>> don't want to see these files in the list of modified files.
>>
>> What is the reason git ignore is no good in this case? Is it simply
>> that you can't see the ignored files in git status, or is it that
>> adding and removing entries to .gitignore is too cumbersome? If it's
>> the latter you could probably put together a simple shell wrapper to
>> automate the task, as otherwise it seems like git ignore does what you
>> need.
>
> Git ignore doesn't ignore tracked files.

would 'git update-index --assume-unchanged' work in this case?  Didn't
see it mentioned in any of the replies so far (but I have never used
it myself)

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-05  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-04 16:45 Ignore on commit Marco Craveiro
2012-10-04 20:06 ` Pascal Obry
2012-10-04 21:20   ` Marco Craveiro
2012-10-04 23:02     ` Andrew Wong
2012-10-05  1:00     ` Andrew Ardill
2012-10-05  1:35       ` demerphq
2012-10-05  2:20         ` Sitaram Chamarty [this message]
2012-10-05  2:44           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-05  2:44           ` Andrew Ardill
2012-10-05  6:09             ` Marco Craveiro
2012-10-05  7:00       ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-05 13:30     ` Pascal Obry

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