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Himmators
Himmators

Reputation: 15006

Something like gitignore but not git ignore

I want to ignore a file containing database-passwords and such. I asked a friend who set up the git if I could us gitignore. He said "no, because there is already a file with dummy data in the repository, there is another function that you should use, I don't remember what it's called, google it!"

I tried googleing, but given the information it's pretty tricky, does anyone know what function he is talking about?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 4541

Answers (4)

framontb
framontb

Reputation: 2077

If you want to ignore files that are already tracked, use this:

git update-index --assume-unchanged <filePath>

Upvotes: 1

Dave Doran
Dave Doran

Reputation: 341

If you add the file to .git/info/exclude - it will ignored, and this exclude file is local to your repository and will not be available to others.

Upvotes: 16

koen
koen

Reputation: 13737

Here's an alternative to gitignore:

Ignore the .gitignore file itself

Upvotes: 2

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324937

You should use a gitattribute filter driver

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That way:

  • on the checkout step, a 'smudge' script can replace the content of your file by whatever you want, saving its original content first (that is, assuming the content of that file is specific enough to be detected as the right content, since a filter driver is about the content of files, not about a specific file pathname).
  • and/or on the commit step, a 'clean' script can restore the same file in its original content (again assuming the modified content is specific enough to be detected and replaced)

Upvotes: 10

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