Question

I’ve a git repository folder in which I clone other git repositories. How can the main repo ignore sub-repositories in git add -A command?

Answer 1

unstage files

git reset HEAD

and clean index

git rm --cached -r repo1

add repo1 as a submodule, create a file .gitmodules contains below

[submodule "repo1"]
      path = repo1
      url = git://xx.com/repo1.gitt

More about git cache, stage and index