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OwenH
OwenH

Reputation: 68

How to use git update-index --assume-unchanged <file> with pathspec?

I have a bunch of auto-generated files I would like to temporarily hide/ignore from my git. I tried this:

git update-index --assume-unchanged '*.gen.*'

but I'm getting a fatal error. Is there a solution to this? Or must I do this file by file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1098

Answers (2)

Philippe
Philippe

Reputation: 26472

This shorter form should work as well :

git update-index --assume-unchanged $(git ls-files -m '**/*.gen.*')

for the reverse :

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged $(git ls-files -v '**/*.gen.*' | grep -Po '^[[:lower:]]+\s+\K.*')

Upvotes: 1

OwenH
OwenH

Reputation: 68

Following the suggestion from @torek I came up with these commands:

Hide .gen. files

git status -s | grep '.gen.' | cut -c 4- | xargs -I FILE git update-index --assume-unchanged FILE

  • git status -s list files in short format
  • grep '.gen.' filter list to files containing .gen. anywhere in the path
  • cut -c 4- cut the start of each string to remove the M
  • xargs -I FILE git update-index --assume-unchanged FILE loops through each of the files and executes the git command

List ignored files

git ls-files -v | grep "^[a-z]"

Unhide all files

git ls-files -v | grep "^[a-z]" | cut -c 3- | xargs -I FILE git update-index --no-assume-unchanged FILE

This won't work for files that are not yet in the repo but it is enough for my use case.

Upvotes: 1

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