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babak faghihian
babak faghihian

Reputation: 1189

Git rm cached remove local file on local repo

Hi i have a bare repo and 2 user got clone from that repo ,

after a while i founded that i need to ignore tracking images from a folder but we want to every client have that folder for themselves and not remove, [like storing product images]

so i add the folder to gitignore and then we need only bare repo to not have any images ,

so i searched and founded to remove pictures that before added we should use

git rm --cached folder/

so after using this command the client that used this command have that folder and every thing is ok

but another client run git pull and see the local folder removed !

so what should we do that pictures only remove from bare repo, not clients that use git pull

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1608

Answers (3)

Mushegh Zakaryan
Mushegh Zakaryan

Reputation: 89

for example you can do: git rm -r --cached folder

Upvotes: 1

gabe3886
gabe3886

Reputation: 4265

To get around this, create the folder/ and add a file called empty, as git needs a file in a folder structure for it to exist.

In your .gitignore file, you'll have the ignore line folder. Right below that add a new line !folder/empty which will then mean ignore items in 'folder', but not the 'empty' file.

The same can be done with a blank index.html file or similar.

Upvotes: 0

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 521073

I think what happened is that the first client used git rm on the folders, then pushed, removing them from the branch on the repository. Then, when another client pulled, Git effectively sent a delete order to those image files, thereby removing them from the second client's local files.

To avoid this happening for other clients, each client should first add the image files to .gitignore before pulling. This way, when Git sends an order during the pull to delete the files, the files will be ignored and they will remain locally.

Upvotes: 0

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