If you are doing a git status and only wish to see changes applicable to tracked files:<div><br></div><div>$ git status -uno -- .</div><div><br></div><div>If you are a Linux commandline type of guy, I like doing commit work using 'tig'.</div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tobias Hammer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tobias.hammer@dlr.de" target="_blank">tobias.hammer@dlr.de</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Edit .gitgnore and then use<br> git update-index --assume-unchanged .gitignore<br> to tell git to ignore the changes.<br> <br> Revert with<br> git update-index --no-assume-unchanged .gitignore<br> if needed.<br> <br> Tobias<br> <br> <br> <br> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:22:29 +0100, Chen Xiao <<a href="mailto:chenxiao770117@gmail.com" target="_blank">chenxiao770117@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I fork the codebase on my local computer. Then I .configure & make & make<br> install, as a result, there are many compiled things like bin or *.o files.<br> <br> To avoid add them to my commit, I modify .gitignore to ignore them all.<br> <br> But I can't avoid add .gitignore at all, isn't it?<br> <br> So how do you solve this problem?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> </font></span></blockquote><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <br> <br> -- <br> ------------------------------<u></u>---------------------------<br> Tobias Hammer<br> DLR / Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics<br> Muenchner Str. 20, D-82234 Wessling<br> Tel.: 08153/28-1487<br> Mail: <a href="mailto:tobias.hammer@dlr.de" target="_blank">tobias.hammer@dlr.de</a><br> _________________________<br> Racket Developers list:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/<u></u>dev</a><br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>