Exclude specific files from ‘git pull’

Question

This allowed me to tell git to ignore a specific file, even though it was already part of a project. All changes I make to it will be ignored:

git update-index --assume-unchanged Localization/el-GR.js

Notes

It’s ignored by git status, but not by git pull. You can solve it with something like git remote update && git checkout origin/main -- Localization/el-GR.js in order to retrieve the updated version.

Source: http://codethug.com/2013/09/20/4-ways-to-ignore-files-with-git/