Ignore specific changes to a file in git, but not the entire file

Question

I have a file in a git repository that has a local change on it. I want to have git ignore the local change forever, but not the file. In particular,

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Answer 1

If you can't use .gitignore as you need to make parallel changes in the same file(as found in your comments) then one option is git add -p Using this you can add or skip accordingly.

The problem using the above git command here is, it will be more of a manual process. I guess you may not find any other automated approach for you problem.