Ignore uncommitted changes in tracked files with Git

Git update-index --assume-unchanged.md

IGNORE LOCAL CHANGES

Ignore local changes to repository files or directories git update-index --assume-unchanged path/to/file/or/directory

ALIAS

Or you can alias it in your ~/.gitconfig [alias] au = update-index --assume-unchanged

UN-IGNORE LOCAL CHANGES

update the index and removes the assume-unchanged flag so your changes can be committed git update-index --no-assume-unchanged path/to/file/or/directory

ALIAS

or you can alias it in your ~/.gitconfig [alias] nau = update-index --no-assume-unchanged

LIST FILES/DIRS FLAGGED AS assume-unchanged

List files/directories that have been marked as assume-unchanged lower-case h in first column tells us the file/directory has been marked as assume-unchanged git ls-files -v [path/to/directory]

ALIAS

Or alias it in your ~/.gitconfig this one passes the list to grep so we can filter on the lowercase letter [alias] ignored = !git ls-files -v | grep "^[[:lower:]]"