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mightyteja
mightyteja

Reputation: 913

Limit the files while deploying - git

I am using Gitlab to deploy my application.

I have few files that needs to be synced to the Gitlab but dont want that to be deployed to the Production.

eg: read.md,notes,snippets.

I know that adding the files to the .gitignore will do the task but it will completely ignore the files.

Are there any other alternative?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (1)

Romain Valeri
Romain Valeri

Reputation: 22067

There is a way to tell git not to take changes into account specific files :

git update-index --skip-worktree path/to/file

(doc)

You can set it before deploying to production, and unset it for your everyday exchanges on gitlab.

(The question about the respective interests of using --skip-worktree or --assume-unchanged has already been answered here, you might want to take a look.)

Upvotes: 1

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