{{tag>git}}

====== Local git repo sync with github ======
When we want to have different file content in local repo (example robots.txt file on live server) than the one on github repo

  - Make the changes on server
  -     ''git update-index –assume-unchanged filename''
  -     Check if modification is tracked with git status (shouldn't be)
  -     Additionally, we can check the list of assume-unchanged files with: 

  git ls-files -v|grep '^h'

When we want to make sure cross-platform file permission settings are not tracked as modified files by git:

Set filemode to false (filemode = false) in //.git/config// file. This file is not shared, so make sure to change wherever necessary (server)

When line ending cross-platform differences are causing git to modify files (Warning: LF will be converted to CRLF or vice-versa):

We can change config settings on each repo, or better yet, using shared //.gitattributes// file

More info here https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/

Sample .gitattributes file when we want to force LF line endings here: https://gist.github.com/dpalomar/ebc64d6f56cfc25a3e5c20fe7cdfbd4f



====== Tested on ======
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====== See also ======

====== References ======
  * https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2900