The obnoxious annoyance of Git

Positioned by its advocates as a free, fast and easy to use source control too, Git on the surface offers easy customization through .gitignore.

Not so fast! It will ignore the entries you included, unless you had a misfortune to add them previously. Then it becomes an uphill battle in a war of attrition to get those from under source control.

The command git update-index --assume-unchanged . is supposed to overcome this annoyance. Supposedly, the files would still be under source control, but the changes to them would be ignored. Ha-ha, you fell for it! No, that does not work 100% of the time. Perhaps 30-50%, but there is no reason whatsoever how Git decides when to work, and when to completely ignore that command. And of course - it is effin' open source free software, so there is no diagnostics whatsoever and the user is left in complete darkness regarding what is going on. Boo hoo, Linus! You should have known better.

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Google believes I am a robot

Yes, I do run FF with NoScript, Adblock Edge and CookieMonster addons to prevent attacks, reduce traffic and avoid tracking. No, I do not want to be offered ads of same stuff on all web sites I visit, and will not disable my cookie and JS protection.

So the $*10^6 question is: why do you, Google, care, while YOU ARE A ROBOT! You creep all over the Internet, you suck information out of web sites, even engaging in hacks and security circumvention to steal copyrighted content and re-publish it w/o owner's permission, and you are worried if some potentially allegedly robot accesses you??? How does this make sense, can anyone tell me?

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