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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