Git Ignore-On-Commit

I used SVN & Tortoise SVN years ago. There was one cool feature: ignore-on-commit.

Now I use Git to track projects and file changes. I’m pretty sure that Tortoise GIT has an ignore-on-commit feature, but I prefer to use Git within the terminal. Anyway, there is a straightforward way to achieve the same behavior.

git update-index --assume-unchanged <filename> makes file changes ‘invisible’ for git tree status;
git update-index --no-assume-unchanged <filename> unhides file from being ‘invisible’ for git;
git ls-files -v | grep '^h' | cut -c3-
shows all ‘invisible’ files;

There is one more tip with it - use aliases. Put lines below to .gitconfig file.

Now the commands at the beginning are available the following way:

git hide <filename>
makes file changes ‘invisible’ for git tree status;
git unhide <filename> unhides file from being ‘invisible’ for git;
git show-hidden
shows all ‘invisible’ files;

That’s it!