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Alexander Trauzzi
Alexander Trauzzi

Reputation: 7405

How do I push files specified in .gitignore?

If I have a "vendors" directory in my .gitignore, is there a way I can set up a remote that will receive that directory anyway when I do a push?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 22349

Answers (4)

Atauã Doederlein
Atauã Doederlein

Reputation: 101

Nishad-up's answer is correct: git commit and git push will only handle the content you set to update to the remote. But when you call git add on something that's in .gitignore, or inside a folder that's listed there, git doesn't accept the command, and throws the error you got.
You have to force staging such files or folders using git add -f relative-path-to/my-file.png or whatever file(s) you want, the rest is the same (git commit, git push, etc).
*I couldn't figure out how to do this through the VS-Code source control bar, I had to do it in the terminal.

Upvotes: 0

Nishad Up
Nishad Up

Reputation: 3615

use -f to forcefully add.

Here is the example.

git add -f path/to/file

Upvotes: 2

cory-fowler
cory-fowler

Reputation: 4088

I think the functionality you're looking for can be achieved by having a branch used to deploy to your Cloud Provider.

Setup a dev branch which includes your .gitignore file, check your incremental work into that branch.

Merge your dev branch into your deploy branch which doesn't contain a .gitignore file but contains the vendors directory.

once you've completed your merge, push to the deployment remote from your deploy branch.

Upvotes: 9

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 312620

Your .gitignore file has nothing to do with pushing. It is used by things like git status and git add to figure out what files should be (or could be) part of a future commit. You can add things that are ignored using the git add command; it will throw an error unless you use the -f option:

The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
somefilename
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added

Once you've added the file to the repository, it will be pushed along with any other changes.

Upvotes: 10

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