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user1032531

Reputation: 26321

Exclude given directory from git add

I have applied git to /var/www/classes. I would like git to track all files in it included those in /var/www/classes/dont_include (i.e. I don't want to use .gitignore to exclude this directory).

How do I add (stage) all files except those in /var/www/classes/dont_include?

/var/www/classes
/var/www/classes/included1
/var/www/classes/included2
/var/www/classes/dont_include

Upvotes: 2

Views: 132

Answers (3)

David
David

Reputation: 3055

Currently you don't want to ignore that directory, rather adding in another commit you should either manually specify files/directory or add all than remove that directory.

If you've a lot of files/directory, specify each one would take a lot of time. So removing that folder is much faster and easier. You can do that from /var/www/classes as follow:

$ git add .
$ git reset -- dont_include

In your staging area you'll now find everything but dont_include

Upvotes: 1

KathyA.
KathyA.

Reputation: 681

Another possible way is using --assume-unchanged, as per github's help.

Before adding, do 

$ git update-index --assume-unchanged /var/www/classes/dont_include

After committing, do 

$git update-index --no-assume-unchanged /var/www/classes/dont_include

Upvotes: 2

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 43364

You can do one of these

  1. Add the other folders manually

    $git add included1/ included2/

  2. Add everything and remove the unwanted folder from the staging area

    $git add .
$git reset -- dont_include/

Upvotes: 2

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