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02 Oct 2024

Git ignoring files local-only without gitignore

TIL1:

  • ./git/info/exclude is your local .gitignore outside the repository tree!
  • git update-index --assume-unchanged .gitignore makes git stop checking the changes for that file in the working tree. --no-assume-unchanged to take it back.23

Finally a place for my local ignores that won’t appear in autocomplete suggestions for git add and friends. In Pycharm I have changelists, and now I finally have a solution for my just-as-usual vim/git/CLI workflow as well.

BUT:

  • exclude won’t work if the file is already tracked (says SO but for me it works?..)

  1. git - How can I stop .gitignore from appearing in the list of untracked files? - Stack Overflow ↩︎

  2. justaddwater.dk | How to make Git ignore files that already exist in your project ↩︎

  3. git-update-index(1) ↩︎

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