Subject: Re: git pull not ignoring the file which has been sent to the temporary ignore list

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:31:40 -0800

Arup Rakshit <[email-masked]> writes:

> I asked git not to track any changes to the file .gitignore. To do
> so I did use the command - git update-index --assume-unchanged
> .gitignore.

You are not asking Git to do anything. You promised Git that you
will make no changes to .gitignore, and then broke that promise.

Assume-unchanged is *not* "Ignore changes to this path".