Git Restkit submodule .xcodeproj modified all the time

Question

I am not doing changes to the submodule and it keeps making problems every time I am merging or committing.

Is there a way to ignore that ?

Answer 1

I am not an expert with XCode projects; But to my understanding this folder holds important files (see here https://stackoverflow.com/a/6120152/1031900).

1. But if you know what you're doing, and you'd like to ignore changes to RestKit.xcodeproj, do this

   git update-index --assume-unchanged $(git ls-files RestKit.xcodeproj | tr '\n' ' ')
   Better explained here

2. You could also just add the folder to .gitignore, but when commiting don't use -a switch. Adding the folder to .gitignore file (in the base git folder, if it doesn't exist create it) is done with this line:

   RestKit.xcodeproj/

3. If you'd like to completely stop tracking the folder, do this:

   git rm -r RestKit.xcodeproj Then, add the folder to .gitignore file as explained above.

You can probably fine some usefull information in Git ignore file for Xcode projects

Hope I helped.