Re: Ignore on commit

From: "Andrew Ardill" <redacted>

On 5 October 2012 07:20, Marco Craveiro [off-list ref] 
wrote:

quoted

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Similar but not quite; the idea is that you know that there is some
code (I'm just talking about files here, so lets ignore hunks for the
moment) which is normally checked in but for a period of time you 
want
it ignored. So you don't want it git ignored but at the same time you
don't want to see these files in the list of modified files.

What is the reason git ignore is no good in this case? Is it simply
that you can't see the ignored files in git status, or is it that
adding and removing entries to .gitignore is too cumbersome? If it's
the latter you could probably put together a simple shell wrapper to
automate the task, as otherwise it seems like git ignore does what you
need.

IIUC the files are already tracked, and a variant of ' git 
update-index --assume-unchanged' is being requested, so that the command 
doesn't need to be repeated if they checkuout / swap branches (which 
assumes I've understood the effect of such an index change correctly)

Regards,

Andrew Ardill
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