How can I make git ignore future revisions to a file?

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As many others have mentioned, a good modern solution is:

git update-index --skip-worktree default_values.txt

That will ignore changes to that file, both local and upstream, until you decide to allow them again with:

git update-index --no-skip-worktree default_values.txt

You can get a list of files that are marked skipped with:

git ls-files -v . | grep ^S

Note that unlike --skip-worktree, the --assume-unchanged status will get lost once an upstream change is pulled.

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