Re: Making Git untrack few folders

Thanks Ram.

git rm --cached was precisely what I was looking for.

Also .gitignore file worked without any issues.

Cheers,
Parag




On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Parag,

Parag Kalra writes:

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1. Is there a way I can make Git not track a particular folder in my
working code base directory. For example, I have a tmp folder in my
local code base and I don't want Git to track whats going on inside
that directory.

Yes. See gitignore (5).

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2. Accidently I have added this folder, committed and pushed it to
origin master. Is there a way I can remove this tmp folder from git
revision history and at the same time keeping it intact in my local
code base directory.

Yes. Simply `rm --cached` the folder, and amemd your previous commit
using `commit --amend`, and perform a non-ff push using the `+`
syntax. For example, to perform a non-ff push to remote branch `foo`
whose local name is `foo`, invoke `push +foo:foo`. Note that other
users who have already pulled the bad commit will have to forget about
it explicitly too.

If the folder tracking information is a few revision deep, consider
using `rebase -i` to manually overwrite those commits to exclude that
folder. If the folder was too many revisions earlier, use a
`filter-branch` index filter to make Git completely forget that
folder.

-- Ram