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Asked: 2026-06-10T17:48:43+00:00

I would like to start using git on a website that already has a

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I would like to start using git on a website that already has a lot of content on it (like tens of GB of videos and photos).
I have all the source codes (PHP, HTML etc.) stored locally on my computer.

I like this solution for git deployment but I’m afraid that git is going to delete the multimedia files on that remote server (if they are not in a repository git).

I have put folders with photos and videos to gitignore.

So the question is:
If there are files already in a GIT_WORK_TREE after you set up a bare repository, are they going to be deleted after you push? Or could they be deleted somehow?

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  1. Editorial Team

    On checkout Git won’t touch anything that is not tracked, so you’re safe.

    You should maybe avoid the -f (force) flag to the checkout command, so that if you have untracked files that get tracked in a push, git will ask you for confirmation to overwriting them.

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