Undo git update-index --assume-unchanged file

Question

The way you Git ignore watching tracking a particular dir file  you just run this   git update-index --assume-unchanged  lt file gt   Now how do you undo it so they are watched again   Let s call it un-assume

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To synthesize the excellent original answers from @adardesign, @adswebwork and @AnkitVishwakarma, and comments from @Bdoserror, @Retsam, @seanf, and @torek, with additional documentation links and concise aliases...

Basic Commands

To reset a file that is assume-unchanged back to normal:

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged <file>

To list all files that are assume-unchanged:

git ls-files -v | grep '^[a-z]' | cut -c3-

To reset all assume-unchanged files back to normal:

git ls-files -v | grep '^[a-z]' | cut -c3- | xargs git update-index --no-assume-unchanged --

Note: This command which has been listed elsewhere does not appear to reset all assume-unchanged files any longer (I believe it used to and previously listed it as a solution):

git update-index --really-refresh

Shortcuts

To make these common tasks easy to execute in git, add/update the following alias section to .gitconfig for your user (e.g. ~/.gitconfig on a *nix or macOS system):

[alias]
    hide = update-index --assume-unchanged
    unhide = update-index --no-assume-unchanged
    unhide-all = ! git ls-files -v | grep '^[a-z]' | cut -c3- | xargs git unhide --
    hidden = ! git ls-files -v | grep '^[a-z]' | cut -c3-

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To get undo show dir s files that are set to assume-unchanged run this   git update-index --no-assume-unchanged  lt file gt   To get a list of dir s files that are assume-unchanged run this   git ls-files -v grep   h

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None of the solutions worked for me in Windows - it seems to use capital H rather than h for the file status and the grep command requires an extra caret as   also represents the start of line as well as negating the next character   Windows solution   Open Git Bash and change to the relevant top level directory  git ls-files -v   grep    H  to list all the uncached files git ls-files -v   grep    H    cut -c 3-   tr   012    000    xargs -0 git update-index --no-skip-worktree to undo the files skipping of all files that was done via update-index --skip-worktree git ls-files -v   grep    H     cut -c 3-   tr   012    000    xargs -0 git update-index --no-assume-unchanged to undo the files skipping of all files that was done via update-index --assume-unchanged git ls-files -v   grep    H  to again list all the uncached files and check whether the above commands have worked - this should now not return anything

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I assume  heh  you meant --assume-unchanged  since I don t see any --assume-changed option  The inverse of --assume-unchanged is --no-assume-unchanged

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If you want to undo all files that was applied assume unchanged with any status  not only cached  git marks them by character in lower case   you can use the following command   git ls-files -v   grep    a-z     cut -c 3-   tr   012    000    xargs -0 git update-index --no-assume-unchanged    git ls-files -v will print all files with their status grep    a-z   will filter files and select only assume unchanged cut -c 3- will remove status and leave only paths  cutting from the 3-rd character to the end tr   012    000  will replace end of line character   012  to zero character   000  xargs -0 git update-index --no-assume-unchanged will pass all paths separated by zero character to git update-index --no-assume-unchanged to undo

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If you are using Git Extensions  then follow below steps    Go to commit window   Click on the dropdown named Working directory changes  Select Show assummed-unchanged files option  Right click on the file you want to unassumme  Select Do no assumme unchanged    You are done

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If this is a command that you use often - you may want to consider having an alias for it as well  Add to your global  gitconfig    alias      hide   update-index --assume-unchanged     unhide   update-index --no-assume-unchanged   How to set an alias  if you don t know already    git config --configLocation alias aliasName  command --options    Example   git config --global alias hide  update-index --assume-unchanged  git config    etc   After saving this to your  gitconfig  you can run a cleaner command   git hide myfile ext   or  git unhide myfile ext   This git documentation was very helpful   As per the comments  this is also a helpful alias to find out what files are currently being hidden    alias      hidden     git ls-files -v   grep   h    cut -c3-

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git update-index function has several option you can find typing as below   git update-index --help   Here you will find various option - how to handle with the function update-index     if you don t know the file name   git update-index --really-refresh     if you know the file name    git update-index --no-assume-unchanged  lt file gt    will revert all the files those have been added in ignore list through   git update-index --assume-unchanged  lt file gt

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Nothing here that is not covered  But would like to add my 2 cents  At times  I run a build and it changes lot of files and then I want to work on something  so this command really helps me a lot    git update-index --assume-unchanged  git status    grep modified    sed   s modified   g   xargs    Hope someone else find it useful as well

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So this happened  I accidently clicked on  quot assume unchanged quot   I tried searching on Internet  but could not find any working solution  So  I tried few things here and there and finally I found the solution  easiest one  for this which will undo the assume unchanged  Right click on  quot Your Project quot  then Team  gt  Advanced  gt  No assume Unchanged

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Adding to  adardesign s answer  if you want to reset all files that have been added to assume-unchanged list to no-assume-unchanged in one go  you can do the following   git ls-files -v   grep   h    sed  s          sed  s        g    xargs -I FILE git update-index --no-assume-unchanged FILE    true   This will just strip out the two characters output from grep i e   h    then escape any spaces that may be present in file names  and finally    true will prevent the command to terminate prematurely in case some files in the loop has errors

[git] Undo git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>

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