On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Arup Rakshit <arupraks...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, January 23, 2015 11:31:40 AM you wrote: >> Arup Rakshit <arupraks...@rocketmail.com> writes: >> >> > I asked git not to track any changes to the file .gitignore. To do >> > so I did use the command - git update-index --assume-unchanged >> > .gitignore. >> >> You are not asking Git to do anything. You promised Git that you >> will make no changes to .gitignore, and then broke that promise. >> >> Assume-unchanged is *not* "Ignore changes to this path". > > Ok. How should I then ignore any local changes to the .gitignore file ? And > while taking pull, git should skip this file ?
Look at .git/info/exclude When looking for a reference to that path (I am bad at remembering which man page that is) I found https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/ as Googles first hit, which advises to use git update-index --assume-unchanged path/to/file.txt Not sure if that is most helpful advice there. See http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore instead -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
