Comments on: Git: Ignore changes in a working tree file

By: Git Ignoring already committed (tracked) files - M-x Kelsin

Git Ignoring already committed (tracked) files - M-x Kelsin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:12:50 +0000

[...] The simple answer to this is to tell git to mark this file as “not changed”. I found this post that told me about this feature. This feature exists in order to help people with slow filesystems [...]

By: Christopher Giroir

Christopher Giroir — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:00:48 +0000

I use this when working locally on some rails projects. I edit our main controller to ignore some authentication that I don’t have access to but I don’t want to commit that. I don’t want to stash away the changes, I just want git to ignore them so I don’t accidentally commit it.

To see a list of these I use this command:
git ls-files -v | grep ^[a-z]

The -v on ls-files shows assume-unchanged files as lower case versions of the normal tags (-t shows uppercase no matter what) and then I grep for only lower case tags. If anyone has a better way of doing this please tell me :)

To make this easier to use I have an alias in my ~/.gitconfig file:

[alias]
marked-unchanged = !git ls-files -v | grep ^[a-z]
mu = !git ls-files -v | grep ^[a-z]

Now I can use this with “git marked-unchanged” or “git mu”

By: Andrew Chen

Andrew Chen — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:01:52 +0000

hello! How do I get ahold of you? I couldn’t find an email address.

Here’s my bio for more background: http://andrewchenblog.com/about/

Please write me at voodoo at gmail, thanks!

Andrew