On 03/15, Arup Rakshit wrote: > On Sunday, March 15, 2015 01:30:04 PM you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 03/15, Arup Rakshit wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to ignore 2 files, but getting error - > > > > > > [arup@sztukajedzenia (SJ002)]$ git status > > > # On branch SJ002 > > > # Untracked files: > > > # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) > > > # > > > # .ruby-gemset > > > # .ruby-version > > > nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to > > > track) > > > [arup@sztukajedzenia (SJ002)]$ git update-index --assume-unchanged > > > .ruby-gemset > > > fatal: Unable to mark file .ruby-gemset > > > [arup@sztukajedzenia (SJ002)]$ git update-index --assume-unchanged > > > .ruby-version > > > fatal: Unable to mark file .ruby-version > > > [arup@sztukajedzenia (SJ002)]$ > > > > With --assume-unchanged you're promising git that you will not change > > a file that is already in the repository. Git doesn't check those > > files for changes anymore, which can improve performance. > > > > I didn't understand your point. Could you please elaborate more on it ?
--assume-unchanged only works on files that you added on the repository, not on untracked files. Because you don't seem to want these files in the repository, update-index --assume-unchanged will not work for you. > > > Why it is throwing error ? And how to achieve this without taking > > > the help of the file `.gitignore` ? > > > > You can create a file .git/info/exclude in the root directory of the > > repository with the same syntax as .gitignore to ignore these files. > > This rules will not be commited in the repository. > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > ================ > Regards, > Arup Rakshit > ================ > Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, > if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not > smart enough to debug it. > > --Brian Kernighan > -- > 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 -- Thomas Gummerer -- 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
