How to remove a tracked directory from local but keep in the repository?

Question

I have a directory named downloader in my Magento application's root directory.

At present it in version control. I want to make it possible that the directory and files should be version control (In the repository) to track any changes.

But I want to remove it safely from the production server and when ever I do git pull the directory should not be pulled on the server.

Also the there should be not message like deleted: downloader/ after deletion of directory from production server.

How to achieve this?

Jan Krüger · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-25 11:30:40Z

There is a feature called sparse checkout that allows you to do this - it basically tells Git to locally ignore part of your repository when checking out or when interacting with the index, e.g. git status.

Documentation here: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-read-tree#_sparse_checkout

Brief summary of what to do:

On your production server, at the top level of the repo, create a file .git/info/sparse-checkout and add two patterns, each on its own line: * and !/downloader/ (together meaning: everything but the downloader dir on the top level)
Enable this whole thing: git config core.sparseCheckout true
Run git reset - this will unstage any staged changes and, as a side effect, apply the patterns to your index so git status, git add and friends know about them.

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