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Lasse Petersen
Lasse Petersen
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Posted by Lasse Petersen
Lasse Petersen
1,974 Points

Git stopped tracking all files after using update-index --assume-unchanged

Hi everyone

I got some Git issues that are taking too much time and was hoping you could help me out.

So here is the situation:

  • I building a Laravel (5.2) web app
  • i needed to stop tracking the content of a few folders and used "git update-index --assume-unchanged" in the wrong folder by a mistake
  • the issue: now the majority of my files are no longer tracked
  • it seems like I can add them back one by one by using: "git update-index --no-assume-unchanged FILENAME", but as we are taking about +1000 files, this is not an option

What I have tried:

  • when I run: "git update-index --no-assume-unchanged *" i get: "fatal: Unable to mark file folder/subfoldername"
  • when i ""git update-index --no-assume-unchanged FOLDERNAME" i get the same
  • or "git update-index --no-assume-unchanged" has no effect

Looking forward to getting your input