Git推送到已有文件的遥控器

Question

I would like to start using git on a website that already has a lot of content on it (like tens of GB of videos and photos). I have all the source codes (PHP, HTML etc.) stored locally on my computer.

I like this solution for git deployment but I'm afraid that git is going to delete the multimedia files on that remote server (if they are not in a repository git).

I have put folders with photos and videos to gitignore.

So the question is: If there are files already in a GIT_WORK_TREE after you set up a bare repository, are they going to be deleted after you push? Or could they be deleted somehow?

Answer 1

On checkout Git won't touch anything that is not tracked, so you're safe.

You should maybe avoid the -f (force) flag to the checkout command, so that if you have untracked files that get tracked in a push, git will ask you for confirmation to overwriting them.