title: How do I suppress git messages for files outside of my working folder in a large shared repo?
body: <p>I cloned a work repo which has many files and folders, but my piece is just one folder and the files in it. When doing &quot;status&quot;, it shows a series of deleted files in another folder somewhere that I can't fix by doing git checkout or git reset hard or anything else I could find. Maybe that's just something that's pending in the master? I have no idea.</p>
  <p>Rather than F around and find out, I want git to pretend that only my folder exists. I know I could use <code>git ignore</code>, but that would change it for other people too. I want <code>git status</code> and every other command to ignore anything outside the folder, but without causing any changes to how the repo works for anyone else.</p>