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Hide tracked files locally without .gitignore

Software Engineering#git#developer workflow#safety checks#sparse-checkout#local exclusions#working tree#restore hidden files
Authormthli
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill lets you hide teammates-committed files or directories from your local working tree without changing any tracked content or your team’s .gitignore rules.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Hide tracked paths locally: Removes specified tracked files from your working tree using git sparse-checkout so you can keep personal clutter out of view.
  • Reversible restore: Brings hidden paths back on demand, or disables sparse-checkout entirely to restore everything.
  • Safety guardrails: Refuses to hide when there are uncommitted changes to tracked files under the target path, preventing a half-applied state that could lead to silent loss of work.
  • List current hidden state: Shows which paths are currently excluded in the per-clone sparse-checkout configuration.

Use case: teammates commit personal/generated output like .claude/ or dist/, but you want them hidden only on your machine while still leaving the repo intact for everyone else.

Quick Start

Ask to hide a path locally by running: python <skill-dir>/scripts/sparse_checkout.py hide .claude/

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

scripts

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Please help me install this Skill:
Name: sparse-checkout
Download link: https://github.com/mthli/skills/archive/main.zip#sparse-checkout

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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