Re: .gitignore not

"John M. Dlugosz" [off-list ref] writes:

I'm running on Windows, using msysgit.  I have some files that were
supposed to be symbolic links, but don't come out that way.  I see
them as plain files containing a relative name of another file.  To
make things work, I copied the actual file over the would-be link.  I
don't want to check in that change.

I set up a .gitignore, and it works for the directory in general, but
three files that were symbolic links it keeps finding anyway: deleted
symlink (for those that were directories) and binary files don't match
(for a file).  Even though those are under the directory I excluded
with the .gitignore, it reports those anyway.

How do I tell my local copy of git to really ignore those?  I don't
want to stage it by accident.

Perhaps --assume-unchanged?