Try to use git rm -r /web/tests to remove the directory from your git project.
William Seiti Mizuta @williammizuta Desenvolvedor da Caelum On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Huu Da Tran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to exclude a new subdirectory that was added by someone else. > > in my $GITDIR/info/sparse-checkout file, I have: > > /web/ > > Now, I want to exclude the /web/tests/ subdirectory. So I changed my file > to: > > /web/ > !/web/tests/ > > but this does not work. After calling > > git read-tree -m -u HEAD > > the subdirectory /web/tests is still present. If I change to: > > /web/ > !tests > > the /web/tests subdirectory does disappear, but this may exclude possible > 'tests' directory under any other subdirectories that I may want to keep. > > Is it possible to do what I want? > > Thanks. > > H. > > -- > > > --
