How do we uncheck folders and all its subfolders and its contents in its subfolders from git

Question

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Untrack files from git

We know that we could uncheck some local files from Git. What if we want to uncheck everything inside a folder including all things its sub-folders. And all things that will be generated in it.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you're talking about with "uncheck", but let's say you're talking about Untracking

Here's how to do that

From the root directory of the project:

git rm -r --cached folder_to_untrack
echo "/folder_to_untrack" >> .gitignore

This will add remove from git index folder_to_untrack and every subentry. Adding it to gitignore will prevent it to be shown in Untracked files sections from git status and to be added by mistake using git add