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

It appears that only applies to untracked files. I am specifically  
interested in ignoring changes to files that are already tracked,  
unless I'm misunderstanding what you're suggesting. I just built the  
most recent git from repo.or.cz/git, and did the following:

* edit the file I want to "ignore"
git-status shows this file as modified

* edit .git/config, set core.excludesfile to myexcludes, containing  
the name of the file I want
* git add -u
* git-status
shows the file I edited as ready to be committed.

Dave Watson

On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, David Watson wrote:

quoted

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