Not version control a subdirectory?

Question

I have a dir project containing directories .git, src, data and other subdirs. How can I stop sharing data (i.e. stop including data in the repository, and letting it appearing in other git repositories), while still sharing src and other subdirs?

Shall I move data out of project?

Thanks.

possible duplicate of [Stop tracking and ignore changes to a file in Git](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/936249/stop-tracking-and-ignore-changes-to-a-file-in-git) — dimo414, Mar 27 '15 at 15:27

svlasov · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-27T15:27:57.777

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To stop tracking data dir:

git rm -r --cached data

UPDATE

As @MykolaGurov mentioned, you may also add data dir to .gitignore.

echo 'data' >> .gitignore

edited Mar 27 '15 at 15:27

answered Mar 27 '15 at 15:08

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+ .gitignore it `echo 'data' >> .gitignore` – Mykola Gurov Mar 27 '15 at 15:25
Thanks. What if I have already tracked `data`, and then put `data` into `.gitignore`? – Tim Dec 27 '15 at 14:51
@Tim, as the [docs](https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore) say: _Files already tracked by Git are not affected_ – svlasov Dec 27 '15 at 20:51

Not version control a subdirectory?

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