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pinguinone
pinguinone

Reputation: 473

GIT and ignore existing data

I have a git repository on my NAS. I use from Windows and Linux SmartGit/Hg for interface with it.
I had to took some old repository make in TFS and convert into GIT one, so far so good (difficult procedure but I had success). For the new project I can tell GIT (before the first "commit") which directory I want to exclude, however the converted repository automatically put in git some directory that heritace from TFS. I suppose that TFS also had all the change of this directory.

So I thought that I can tell to GIT to ignore this directory but from SmartGit/Hg seems that if a directory/file is committed once I can't put it into ignore directory, so how can I tell to git to ignore for the future that directory?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 118

Answers (2)

Kevin Sch
Kevin Sch

Reputation: 31

You can use a gitignore file. Here you can define which directories and files will not commited.

Click on the link below: https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/

Kevin

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324827

You need to remove that folder from your index (but not from your disk):

git rm --cached -r yourFolder

(See "gitignore after commit" and "How to remove a directory in my GitHub repository?")

Then the .gitignore will be able to ignore the folder.

yourFolder/

Upvotes: 2

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