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diff --git a/_posts/2008-02-03-ignore-files.markdown b/_posts/2008-02-03-ignore-files.markdown index aaa18e1..b440a95 100644 --- a/_posts/2008-02-03-ignore-files.markdown +++ b/_posts/2008-02-03-ignore-files.markdown @@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ Repo exclude Local per-repo rules can be added to the `.git/info/exclude` file in your repo. These rules *are not committed* with the repo so they are not shared with others. This method can be used for locally-generated files that you don't expect other users to generate, like files created by your editor. +Ignoring versioned files +------------------------ + +Some files in a repository, which are versioned (i.e. not git-ignored), are often changed, but rarely committed. Usually these are various local configuration files that are edited, but should never be committed upstream. Git allows a user to ignore those files by assuming they are unchanged. This is done by running the `git update-index --assume-unchanged path/to/file.txt` command. Once marking a file as such, git will completely ignore any changes on that file, they will not show up when running `git status` or `git diff`, nor will they ever be committed. To make git track the file again, simply run `git update-index --no-assume-unchanged path/to/file.txt`. + Links ----- |