Re: git pull not ignoring the file which has been sent to the temporary ignore list

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

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Ok. How should I then ignore any local changes to the .gitignore
file ? And while taking pull, git should skip this file ?

Look at .git/info/exclude

Good answer for ".gitignore".  In general, you do not "ignore local
changes" to tracked paths.

I found https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/ as Googles
first hit, which advises to use
    git update-index --assume-unchanged path/to/file.txt
Not sure if that is most helpful advice there.

The piece of advice in the last paragraph on that page is wrong (and
it has been wrong from the day it was written).

The gitignore(5) documentation used to have a similar incorrect
piece of advice but we finally corrected it recently.

Cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/260954/focus=261118