title: How do I stop git from deleting what is on a server subdirectory?
body: <p>My main directory structure is /site_program_files/users/usr1 </p>
  
  <p>I don't want Git to touch what is in a /users directory and subdirectories...
  So, I have added /users to my .gitignore file and did a commit then push. And also deleted what was there before with git rm -rf /users.</p>
  
  <p>But now, every time I push it deletes all the files my users updated in their /users directories on the hosted website. All I want is for git not to affect what is in the /users subdirectory on the server, regardless what I'm doing for testing on my local version of it. What am I doing wrong?</p>