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Shadowbob
Shadowbob

Reputation: 1430

git track ignored folder

I excluded a specific folder from git with .gitignore. Today I need to track the files inside, but seems that deleting the line in .gitignore doesn't work.
I tried to do git update-index --no-assume-unchanged -R folder but -R doesn't work, when I do git update-index --no-assume-unchanged folder he tells me fatal: Unable to mark file media because he is expecting a file not a folder.

So how do I track these files ?

Thank you very much.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 453

Answers (2)

Jonathan Wren
Jonathan Wren

Reputation: 3712

If you get fatal: Unable to mark file media, the file probably isn't in the repo. Try git ls-files -o. This will tell you what files are not in the repository. If it's listed on there, then you have to do git add folder. If it causes you any problems, you can maybe add git add -f folder to force an add despite ignore settings.

Upvotes: 1

Adam Dymitruk
Adam Dymitruk

Reputation: 129556

you got step one right to get rid of the line that excludes it in the .gitignore file. Commit that. Now git add path/to/your/file and commit. The file should now be tracked.

If it still isn't, check that you didn't set up a exclude pattern in the config that may be doing this.

Upvotes: 1

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