I am working on a shared repository and I want to exclude all the files under certain directory just for myself. 
So I made an entry in `$GIT_ROOT/.git/info/exclude` 

```
/path/to/folder/

```

After this I removed the indexes using 

```
git rm -r --cached /path/to/folder/*

```

A `git status` after this show a long list of deleted file staged for commit.
I commit the changes and till here all is good as any changes made by me are not tracked by git. But I can not push the same to `remote` as this will mess up other developers working repo. 
After this If I pull from remote it shows me a merge conflict `modified by them/deleted by us`. And with `git reset --hard origin/<branch_name>` It starts tracking the folder again. 

Can this not be achieved because I can not push to remote ?