Re: Any way to ignore a change to a tracked file when committing/merging?

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, David Watson wrote:

Because git-commit -a is nice to use, especially if I really want to check in
all the files, *except a particular set that is always the same*. Having to
specify the files every time gets old pretty quick.

If I could do this:

$ git-commit -a --exclude=somefile

that would be very useful. Or even, if I could set a file in my .git folder
that would be an exclude list, then I could run something like

$ git-commit -a --use-excludes

I suppose the answer is to create the patch myself.

Well, before that I'd suggest you have a look at the git-add man page, 
especially the -u flag and the core.excludesfile config option.


Nicolas