git-update-index-assume-unchanged-on-directory

工程师世霖技术 2022年11月15日

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git 1.7.12

I want to mark all files below a given directory as assume-unchanged.

1) git update-index --assume-unchaged dir/ gives “Ignoring path.”

2) git update-index --assume-unchaged dir/* quickly fails because it will encounter files which are not being tracked, hence it gives “fatal: Unable to mark file” and quits.

3) Try generating a list of files to mark. cd into the desired directory and then run git ls-files | tr '\n' ' ' | git update-index --assume-unchanged. This produces no error message, but it does not successfully mark the files. The first portion of the command, git ls-files | tr '\n' ' ', correctly produces a space delimited list of all the files I want to mark. If I copy and paste the output of that command onto the command-line, then the git update-index command works. What is not working with the pipes?

No, it is not sufficient for me to add dir to .gitignore. I need these files to be in the repository, but undesired changes will be made locally that need to be ignored so that users can do pulls.

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edited Sep 5 ’12 at 20:08

asked Sep 5 ’12 at 19:10

git update-index –assume-unchanged on directory 转摘自：http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12288212/git-update-index-assume-unchanged-on-directory

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edited Jun 29 at 15:15

answered Sep 5 ’12 at 20:03

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Excellent, thank you! The last command did indeed work. – thoughtadvances Sep 5 ’12 at 20:09

Thank you so much! – Mizmor Feb 22 ’13 at 19:37

FYI, that ` | tr ‘\n’ ‘ ‘` bit is unnecessary. – Václav Slavík May 9 ’13 at 8:16

@VáclavSlavík You’re right… can’t remember why I put that in, other than for symmetry with the tr '\n' '\0' case (in which case it is needed)… – twalberg May 9 ’13 at 14:01

@twalberg: You could just use git ls-files -z – Matthew Scharley Jul 22 ’13 at 1:35

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answered Aug 7 ’13 at 18:56

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Виктор Перов
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Instead of using cd, you can pass the dir as a final argument: git ls-files -- $DIR | xargs -l git update-index --assume-unchanged -- $DIR. – kzh Mar 3 at 20:10

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