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

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, David Watson wrote:

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.

I suppose that the behavior of git-add could be modified to honnor the 
exclude pattern even for already tracked files.  Such change would make 
sense to me.


Nicolas