[racket-dev] How to avoid to modify .gitignore when pull request

If you are doing a git status and only wish to see changes applicable to
tracked files:

$ git status -uno -- .

If you are a Linux commandline type of guy, I like doing commit work using
'tig'.


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tobias Hammer <tobias.hammer at dlr.de> wrote:

> Edit .gitgnore and then use
>   git update-index --assume-unchanged .gitignore
> to tell git to ignore the changes.
>
> Revert with
>   git update-index --no-assume-unchanged .gitignore
> if needed.
>
> Tobias
>
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:22:29 +0100, Chen Xiao <chenxiao770117 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  I fork the codebase on my local computer. Then I .configure & make & make
>> install, as a result, there are many compiled things like bin or *.o
>> files.
>>
>> To avoid add them to my commit, I modify .gitignore to ignore them all.
>>
>> But I can't avoid add .gitignore at all, isn't it?
>>
>> So how do you solve this problem?
>>
>
>
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