取消跟踪 git 文件

Question

Here is the think, I have a database field with some html.

<span class="orange"><a href="/pdf/MY_PDF.pdf">Title</a></span>

Last day, my boss told me he wanted to change this pdf. So, i thought I just had to put the new file in the folder and change his name inside the database (MY_PDF2.pdf) for example.

But this is tricky because the file is tracked by git... so to see the new pdf I had to commit just this single PDF. The thing is it's a customer file... so if we have to make some commit each time they want to change... this is crazy.

So I just want to say to git that the file doesn't need to be tracked.

It's under Symfony and this is my file location : C/wamp/www/sitename/web/pdf/

So I would like my git don't tracked the pdf folder anymore. But I don't know how to do that... sure I can put it into my gitignore... but all the others dev will still have the old one...cause I think gitignore is ignored as well...

Not sure I'm very clear, sorry. Don't hesitate to ask what you don't understand in my question. Thanks

Answer 1

You can add a file/folder or a pattern to .gitignore file, and git would never track it.

echo "*.pdf" >> .gitignore # run this command from your project main directory

Otherwise just add *.pyc in the .gitignore file yourself.

If your file is already tracked then you need to run this command too.

git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>

Answer 2

If you want to stop tracking the files, but not delete it from your system:

Add the folder in your .gitignore .

Run this code to keep the files locally and remove the files from your repository.

git rm -r --cached .

Then:

git add .

And commit:

git commit -m "Remove PDF files"

Answer 3

To work with exact file:

1. Add relative path into .gitignore.

git rm --cached <relative path>
git add <relative path>

3. do commit