Recursive git update-index --assume-unchanged
git, gitignore
Solution
`update-index` is an internal plumbing command and thus not as comfortable as the real front-end commands. You will have to handle the recursion bit yourself:
git ls-files -z myFolderToIgnore/ | xargs -0 git update-index --assume-unchanged
PSA: There is a high chance that `assume-unchanged` is not what you are looking for and you should use `skip-worktree` instead. See here for more info.
Problem
I'm trying to run the following: ``` git update-index --assume-unchanged myFolderToIgnore ``` Where `myFolderToIgnore` is a folder. However it fails saying its "unable to mark" it. So I tried: ``` git update-index --assume-unchanged myFolderToIgnore/ ``` Which GIT responds to with `Ignoring path myFolderToIgnore/` but doesn't do anything (it still sees my changes and tries to check them in). In the end I had to go in and manually mark each individual file as unchanged. What am I missing here?