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Petah
Petah

Reputation: 46060

Git ignore deleted files

I have a website project that has more than 50,000 unimportant files (to development) in some directories.

/website.com/files/1.txt
/website.com/files/2.txt
/website.com/files/3.txt
/website.com/files/etc.txt

The stuff in /files is already in the repo. I want to delete all the files in /files on my local copy but I want git to ignore it so it doesn't delete them when I do a pull on the web server.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 28537

Answers (7)

Maxim Masiutin
Maxim Masiutin

Reputation: 4812

As @dave1010 pointed out, you have to mark each individual file. If you don't have awk and bash, such as for Windows, you can use the following Perl script:

foreach (split("\n",`git status`)) {
  if (/^\s+deleted:\s+(.+)$/) {
    `git update-index --assume-unchanged $1`;}}

Any Perl for Windows such as Strawberry Perl, works. You can also write a PowerShell script for Windows, but Perl is universal.

Upvotes: 0

Quang Van
Quang Van

Reputation: 12095

The code below works on deleted as well as modified files to ignore it when you do a git status.

git update-index --assume-unchanged dir-im-removing/

or a specific file

git update-index --assume-unchanged config/database.yml

Ignore modified (but not committed) files in git?

Beware: The suggestion above for deleted files when you do a "git commit -am " includes the deleted file!

A solution that would work for me is to instead of deleting the file, just make it's content blank. This is what I used to mute a .htaccess file.

Upvotes: 13

VndC
VndC

Reputation: 131

for i in `git status | grep deleted | awk '{print $2}'`; do git update-index --assume-unchanged $i; done

works with git 2.25.1

if you encounter this issue:

fatal: Unable to mark file PATH/TO/FILE

check there is no space in the file path and use quotes instead

Upvotes: 0

N. Joppi
N. Joppi

Reputation: 476

To commit only added / modified files (and NOT removed ones) do:

git add . --ignore-removal
git commit -m "commit message"

Upvotes: 1

dave1010
dave1010

Reputation: 15435

Ignoring a whole directory didn't work. I had to do this:

for i in `git status | grep deleted | awk '{print $3}'`; do git update-index --assume-unchanged $i; done

Upvotes: 16

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1328712

Creating a sub-repo is one solution, but you should make that sub-repo a submodule.

That way:

  • you keep a link between your normal content and that 'files' content
  • if the 'files' content evolves one day, you can register its evolution in the main repo
  • you can checkout your main repo without " git submodule update " (that is without filling the 'files' content
  • on deployment, a git submodule update after the git submodule init will be enough to get back the right version of the 'files' content.

Upvotes: 3

Petah
Petah

Reputation: 46060

Ok Ive found a solution. Simply create a new repo in the sub directories and the parent repo will ignore them.

Upvotes: 3

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