Prevent vue cli from deleting all files in dist

I am developing vue project and syncing dist folder with git. This worked well while using webpack. However, I have moved to @vue/cli --- using vue create myProject instead of vue init webpack myProj.

The issue is that every time i run npm run build, it deletes dist folder and recreates it -- all .git and other files gone.

How do I prevent new build from deleting required files in dist folder and only update the changes?

Thanks to answer by Yom S. the documentation here does provide way to keep older dist.

However, the you can't use --no-clean like npm build --no-clean. To use no clean mode from terminal you need to write following command instead

./node_modules/.bin/vue-cli-service --no-clean

Update

Instead you can also add --no-clean in package.json