How to tell Git to temporarily ignore changes to a file

WHAT & WHY

I have a config.toml file.

In my local dev env, I have to change SERVER option value from 0.0.0.0 to localhost. I do not wanna include this change in my commit to prevent affecting prod env.

HOW

You can prevent this change from being included in your commit by using the git update-index --assume-unchanged command. This command tells Git to temporarily ignore changes to a file.

Here's how you can do it:

This will prevent Git from …

change config dev env file git localhost prod server toml value