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how to ignore tracked files
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Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10879783/git-doesnt-ignore-2-specifically-named-files/10881296#comment14178464_10879783
What you want to is to ignore changes on tracked files. This cannot achieved (as Charles Bailey says) correctly, neither with .gitignore nor with .git/info/exclude.
You'll need to use git update-index:
git update-index --assume-unchanged build/conf/a.conf
git update-index --assume-unchanged build/conf/b.conf
will achieve what you want: the files are always assumed unchanged.
If you want to track changes in these files again, use --no-assume-unchanged.
Finally, if you want to know which files are currently in the --assume-unchanged mode, ask git for
git ls-files -v | grep -e "^[hsmrck]"
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