暂时取消跟踪git中的文件

Question

I have a base install of ExpressionEngine (a CMS) which I clone for new projects.

The base install has hundreds of core files that will never change, unless I install an update of expressionengine. Tracking all these files makes git very slow.

So, I want to untrack all of them for during my development, and only track them when I install an update. What would be the best way to do this?

I have tried using .gitignore, but this isn't meant to ignore files that are already being tracked. Should I use exclude or assume-unchanged, or something else?

Answer 1

If your project use an external library, you may want to use git submodule to include it in your repository, then go in that directory to git checkout the tag (or branch, or sha1) you want to use.

git init newproject
cd newproject
git submodule add https://url-or-path/to/base/ee-repository target_dir
cd target_dir
git checkout sometag
cd -
git add target_dir
git commit