Comment on Show HN: make git ignore certain changed files in repoComments−joemi14yI'm a little confused by what this does... Can't you just not 'git add' a file to have git ignore its changes?−falseOP14yThe file still shows up in status and, the most important, changes from file still shows up in 'add|checkout|reset -p' which I use all the time.−jeffclark14ygitignore only works on files that haven't been added. This looks like it's for files already being tracked.
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I'm a little confused by what this does... Can't you just not 'git add' a file to have git ignore its changes?
The file still shows up in status and, the most important, changes from file still shows up in 'add|checkout|reset -p' which I use all the time.
gitignore only works on files that haven't been added. This looks like it's for files already being tracked.