Git ignore deleted files

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

git web ignore delete-file

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

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.

git web ignore delete-file

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.

CodeHunter