I have a bunch of auto-generated files I would like to temporarily hide/ignore from my git. I tried this:

git update-index --assume-unchanged '*.gen.*'

but I'm getting a fatal error. Is there a solution to this? Or must I do this file by file?

CodePudding user response：

Following the suggestion from @torek I came up with these commands:

Hide .gen. files

git status -s | grep '.gen.' | cut -c 4- | xargs -I FILE git update-index --assume-unchanged FILE

• git status -s list files in short format
• grep '.gen.' filter list to files containing .gen. anywhere in the path
• cut -c 4- cut the start of each string to remove the M
• xargs -I FILE git update-index --assume-unchanged FILE loops through each of the files and executes the git command

List ignored files

git ls-files -v | grep "^[a-z]"

Unhide all files

git ls-files -v | grep "^[a-z]" | cut -c 3- | xargs -I FILE git update-index --no-assume-unchanged FILE

This won't work for files that are not yet in the repo but it is enough for my use case.

CodePudding user response：

This shorter form should work as well :

git update-index --assume-unchanged $(git ls-files -m '**/*.gen.*')