I have a devlog
folder where I write down my thoughts/example codes which I like to be visible with git status
. With the exclusion of these files, quite often I can just git add .; git commit
, but obviously the contents in devlog
prohibit that. I like to have a git hook which would unstage the whole path and its contents before commit.
I tried:
git rm --cached devlog/*
But apparently, it expects all contents of ./devlog
to be staged already (including those ignored by .gitignore
) and hence throws an error:
git rm --cached devlog/*
#> fatal: pathspec 'devlog/check.log' did not match any files
Where devlog/check.log
is ignored and has not been staged at all.
Here is a solution that seems to work. Simply add to .git/hooks/pre-commit
the following:
git reset -- devlog/*