Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: >> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
