Git - Temporarily ignore trivial changes to files

Question

I\'m looking for a way to \'hide\' minor changes made to a few files in Git, such that they will not show up in git status until a different change is made to those files.

Answer 1

In my use case (developing using an edited config file on my personal machine, running on another machine with the unchanged config), this was the solution for me:

start ignoring changes to a file:

git update-index --assume-unchanged path/to/file

keep tracking again:

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged path/to/file