git - Pull Request, ignore some file changes

Question

When I do a Pull Request on GitHub (against master branch), can we ignore some file changes, like

• we have one file named 'fileA' in branch 'release', and we have the same file in 'master', but we do some changes in 'fileA' in branch 'release'
• when we do a Pull Request, is there any way we can ignore the changes in 'fileA', do not let that merge into 'master'.

Answer 1

You can't ignore some files from a pull request selectively. Two workarounds for this can be -

First -

• Create a new branch from 'release'
• Replace the non-required files from 'master'
• Create pull request from this new branch

Second -

• Create a new branch from 'master'
• Put changes of required files from 'release'
• Create pull request from this new branch

Any of this method will work. Which will be easier depends upon how many files are to be included / excluded.