How to exclude files in git repo?

Question

On my laravel installation i have an envoirement file and a folder of XML files that i need, but don't want to include in my git REPO.

On my local pc:

XML/

.env

i did:

git rm -r XML

git rm -r .env

And pushed the changes.

But that deleted the file from my pc, which i don't want. I only want to delete is from my git.

if i now pull on production it deleted the .env en XML file.

Any help is appreciated.

i did that but that did not delete them from the REPO they we're allready in — Rubberduck1337106092, Aug 25 '17 at 08:54
Possible duplicate of [How do I ignore files in a directory in Git?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8527597/how-do-i-ignore-files-in-a-directory-in-git) — Troyer, Aug 25 '17 at 08:54
Possible duplicate of [Ignore files that have already been committed to a Git repository](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139762/ignore-files-that-have-already-been-committed-to-a-git-repository) — phd, Aug 25 '17 at 19:40

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '17 at 08:55

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My .gitignore looks like

.DS_Store
nbproject/private/
app/tmp/cache/models/
app/tmp/cache/persistent/
app/tmp/cache/views/
app/tmp/logs/

answered Aug 25 '17 at 08:55

Keyur Padalia

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '17 at 08:58

First, make sure the files are listed in .gitignore (or .git/info/exclude).

Then, if you want to remove files from the repository, but not from your working tree, use git rm --cached:

git rm --cached -r XML .env
git commit

This will stage the files for deletion, but leave the working copies intact.

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