I have a file name settings.py. In my host machine settings.py has a different configuration with that of other developers. I want to stop git from tracking settings.py but not to delete this file from other developers machine when ever they pull changes in the project
Some people talk about including the file in .git/info/exclude folder.
But i have no idea as where to locate this file. I searched for it in my project folder( where git has been initialize). To no avail.
expected result
When ever i commit changes, all changes are push to master except my settings.py file, but not deleting this file from other developers machine when ever they pull my changes.
You already mentioned the correct answer. You can use .git/info/exclude as also documented here.
If you have not created this file yet, you can do so now. Simply place a text file called exclude in .git/info. The .git folder should be present already in the root of your repository.
The file uses the same syntax as a regular .gitignore file, but will only be applied to you.
You can also manually specify a core.excludesfile as described in this answer:
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
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I am using codeigniter framework to develope simple application. I want to push my code to github repo. While publishing my code to repo i want to ignore set of files in config folder such as config.php, database.php etc. I have downloaded codeigniter 3.1.11 from official website. I have been using following conditions inside my .gitignore file but none of them are working for me. I have tried all possible combinations of below conditions.
/application/config/
/application/config/*
/application/config/*.php
/application/config/database.php
/application/config/config.php
application/config/
application/config/*
application/config/*.php
application/config/database.php
application/config/config.php
config/config.php
config/*
/config/*.php
*/config
Whenever i change my config file for localhost setup and check the status it displays config file has been modified, and changes ready to be staged.
Help me to get throught this problem. I have tried all the possible options over the internet as well but none of them are working.
First, whenever a .gitignore set of rule does not work for a given file, check why with:
git check-ignore -v -- /path/to/file/which/should/be/ignored
Second, it is easier to put a .gitignore in the config folder itself, and list the files you don't want.
Third, for any file you want to be ignored, double-check they are not already tracked:
git rm --cached file_to_ignore
I'm new at GitHub and I'm having this issue: I created three private repositories for my project, all fine. On the fourth one, for some reason GitHub desktop included the node_modules folder (its an angular cli app), so I deleted the repository from GitHub.com and from GitHub desktop. When I try to recreate it, it is "cached" on my Mac, even if I copy everything to another folder, and it tries to upload the node_module files.
I also changed the name of the repository, copied all the files but node_modules folder to another folder. Same happens over and over.
I couldn't find anything on internet about this. Sorry if its a newbie question.
You could try to delete the git folder that it's being hidden by default.
Go to in file explore -Views- select "Hidden Items" and try to remove the git folder from here. After that set up your .gitignore file and pass node_modules before you use git init
Use this in your terminal, if you are using VS Code use this in the same folder you are having the problem : git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore'
There are some files/directories in the remote git repository for my project that I don't want in my local repository. They are useful to other project members, but not me. And I can't just identify them in the root .gitignore file because when that file becomes part of the remote repository it becomes the rule for everybody else so they change it back. We don't want to get into a .gitignore war.
Is there a straightforward way for me alone to selectively chose the files/directories that I do or don't want to exchange between the remote repository and my local repository when I do a 'git pull'? To be clear, I'd like to make my selections once and have them take effect every time I do a 'git pull' (or equivalent) and not force them on anyone else.
You can add .gitignore to your .gitignore file.
You then git rm .gitignore and it is no longer tracked.
Then just remove the other files you don't want tracked.
I am using a Git Repository to manage my project,
Now when i try to commit i see there are some impoertant file like content/image , scripts , etc files in untrack files
Why?
Is there any way to resolve this?
Regards,
vinit
You have to use "git add [wildcard or directory or file(s)]" first to add your files to the versioning system GIT. Manual page is here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-add.html
And the git book is worth a read.
Also I liked gitready very much.
Happy coding
If your Git repo has been initialized on GitHub (and then cloned), it is likely to come with a .gitignore (as well as a README.md, and even a LICENSE file).
Check if those files aren't ignored by the rules in the .gitignore.
You can do that with:
git check-ignore -v scripts
You can edit that file to remove the rules you don't want, then a git add . will add:
the modified .gitignore files
the files that were previously ignored.
Hopefully there is some setting in git config for this...
Our project team chooses to store eclipse .project and .classpath settings in the git repository. Now, ignoring wether or not storing these files in the SCM is good or bad -- the problem is when the repository is cloned under windows any filename starting with a dot '.' is set as a system file, making it read-only which causes eclipse to spew errors when trying to update projects.
Could not write file: D:\git\SFP\framework\Auth_Server\.classpath.
D:\git\SFP_convert\framework\Auth_Server\.classpath (Access is denied)
So, how do I stop git from setting files starting with a dot '.' as system/read only?
Git shouldn't change those permission, and dotfiles aren't always considered as "system files" in read-only.
Case in point: a .gitignore present in most repo should be perfectly writable when the repo is cloned, even on Windows.
Git only stores two permissions (755=rwxr.xr.x, 644=rw.r..r..).
One way is to make sure to commit in a repo with git config core.filemode false.
But for a repo which already contains files with the incorrect permission, you need to make a new commit with those same files with the right 755 permission.
You can use a reverse patch or git-meta-cache.
The OP Jon reports:
We are currently using msysgit 1.6.5. upgrading to match the git version on the server (1.7.9) has fixed the problem.
I would recommend also to upgrade to the latest available (1.8.4 Sept. 2013)
This problem occurs when we copy the project from system to other system then some file are automatically hidden.You go in your project directory and in this project directory. some folder and file have a hidden attribute so un-check hidden attribute in all file and folder and now import project.