Git ignore locally deleted folder

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I have a Ruby on Rails application which crashes when vendor/rails is present but works fine if it is not. I need to keep this folder deleted in my local copy so that I can work, but I don't want this deletion to ever be committed. Someone put it there for a reason.

So how do I delete this folder without it coming up in git status as a thousand deleted files? Obviously .gitignore won't work since you can't ignore files which are already tracked. Neither do any of the solutions listed here (git update-index --assume-unchanged) work.

Aristotle Pagaltzis · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-21T12:13:17.343

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 git ls-files --deleted -z | git update-index --assume-unchanged -z --stdin

Note that because this is an index-based operation, you cannot set directories to be ignored – only individual files. If upstream ever adds a file inside those directories, you will have to repeat the fix-up.

edited Mar 21 '18 at 12:13

answered Jan 04 '11 at 04:33

Aristotle Pagaltzis

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Ah right, directories versus files, of course. That did it - thanks! – Alexander Ljungberg Jan 04 '11 at 15:31
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`git ls-files --deleted -z | git update-index --assume-unchanged -z --stdin` ignores all currently deleted files. – blinry Jun 29 '12 at 11:06
@blinry Add this as an answer. Worked perfectly for me! – jmotes Jun 21 '13 at 19:04
@blinry: d’oh! Far better than checking out and using find(1). I’ve updated the answer accordingly, thank you. – Aristotle Pagaltzis Jul 24 '13 at 01:32
Yup, that’s what I meant. I’ll edit to make that clear. – Aristotle Pagaltzis Mar 21 '18 at 12:11
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How would one undo this? – vpzomtrrfrt Sep 14 '18 at 16:55
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Using `--no-assume-unchanged`. – Aristotle Pagaltzis Sep 22 '18 at 08:32

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