How do I git -commit everything except what is in a subdirectory?

Question

I'm building my app on Openshift.

But I need to find out how I can run

git commit -m "Some reason" 

without affecting what is in a /users/* subdirectory. How would I do that?

Answer 1

You can do it with these steps:

• add users folder to file .gitignore
• git add .gitignore
• git commit -m 'add users folder to gitignore'

After these steps folder users will be out of version control

Answer 2

git commit only commits the files & directories which you have staged for commit. So 'git add' only what you want to commit & you will be fine. If you run 'git status' you can see a list of what is staged for commit. Here's a good resource for more information on basic git flows: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Getting-a-Git-Repository