git - 如何不签出文件或文件夹

Question

We have a repo. A coworker check in a folder in linux. I want to check it out in Windows. There are some filenames(eg ABC::DEF.3pm.gz) what Windows doesn't. It fail when I run

git pull origin

Is there a way to ignore this folder?

I've tried put this folder in .gitignore and it doesn't work as this folder's already in repo.

Answer 1

There are two possible solutions.

Sparse checkout

Sparse checkout is a Git feature which allows to checkout only specific files and directories. See examples and further discussion here .

Filter-branch

Another solution would be renaming that file across whole repository with git filter-branch as described in this answer. That would help to get rid of issue at all, however it would also rewrite commit history.