Question

I have a git repository with 2 branches. My .gitignore specifies “*.dll” as one of the patterns.

1. When in branch1, I copy-paste test.dll into the root folder.
2. Then I switch to branch #2 using git checkout branch2.

My branch2 shows the newly added test.dll. I don’t want it to show up in branch2. Is it possible to associate this untracked and ignored file with branch1, so that it will only show up when I git checkout branch1?

Thank you.

Answer 1

It doesn’t seem to be easily done, and the solution proposed in “Using git, how do I ignore a file in one branch but have it committed in another branch?” doesn’t work.

You can ignore it temporarily

git update-index --assume-unchanged README.textile  

But that is a local setting (it wouldn’t be propagated by a push like a .gitignore file would)