git assume-unchanged implications

Question

Say I have a file foo.bar which is tracked by git and at some point I want my local repository to ignore the changes I make to this file. This is, if I

Answer 1

The "assume-unchanged" bit is stored in your index, not in the repository itself. Thus fetch/pull/push do not propagate that setting to or from other repositories, which means it is a local setting. Users of other clones of the repository may very well create new commits involving that file. I'm not sure there's a "simple" answer regarding how to deal with this scenario, as it depends on what exactly you're trying to do, and what is being done in other repositories.