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

On Wednesday 2007, June 13, David Watson wrote:

I've got a problem, or maybe annoyance is more the proper term, that
I haven't seen solved by any SCM system (at least not to my
knowledge). Basically, I may make some changes, e.g. to a Makefile or
somesuch, that I want to ignore when looking at what's changed from

So you want to tell git to track a file and then have it not track 
changes to that file?  Sounds crazy to me.  Don't put files in the 
repository that you don't want tracking.

What you want is an out-of-tree file for that sort of thing.  Why can't 
you just do

#!/usr/bin/make
-include Makefile.local

Rather than messing around with not tracking tracked files?

git does exactly that in it's own build process with a config.mak file, 
which lets you specify, say, an install directory that is obviously 
only valid for you.



Andy
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