Holger, > You should also remove src2 and all files in it from the git repository. > Something like > > git rm -r src2 > git ci > echo 'src2' >> .git/info/exclude > > instead of > > rm -fr src2 > echo 'src2/*' >> .git/info/exclude Thanks this is working indeed. But it was not the whole story :) In fact I want to do that in a branch (say work) and keep master as-is as this branch is used to pull changes from origin. And in this case, doing 'git diff master' still shows the files under src2. See script to reproduce: << #!/bin/sh # create sd (directory that will replace src2) mkdir sd echo sd1 > sd/file1 echo sd2 > sd/file2 # create Git repo mkdir repo cd repo git init mkdir src1 mkdir src2 echo file > src1/file echo 3 > src2/file3 git add . git ci -a -m "first" # let's replace src2 by sd in branch work git checkout -b work git rm src2/* git ci -m "no more src2" # ln -s ../sd src2 cp -r ../sd src2 # make sure src2 is excluded echo 'src2' >> .git/info/exclude # the following output should be clean echo '============== Status' git status echo '============== Diff' git diff echo '============== Diff master' git diff master >> Is that possible? -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html