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Mark Locklear
Mark Locklear

Reputation: 5325

Gitignore: add a file that is in an excluded folder

Currently I have the following in my .gitignore:

...
sites/default/files/*
!sites/default/files/Library/bannerpt2.jpg
...

What I'm trying to accomplish is I don't want any of sites/default/files/ EXCEPT for sites/default/files/Library/bannerpt2.jpg.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 225

Answers (2)

KillerX
KillerX

Reputation: 1466

You can add the file in the excluded folder using git add -f file

Sample Interaction:

$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/killerx/temp/.git/
$ echo "*" > .gitignore
$ touch a.txt
$ git add a.txt
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
a.txt
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added
$ git add -f a.txt
$ git commit -m "t"
[master (root-commit) db22f19] t
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 a.txt
$ echo "a" > a.txt
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#   modified:   a.txt
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Upvotes: 3

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 136984

You need to manually include all subdirectories in the path, unfortunately. This should work:

...
sites/default/files/*
!sites/default/files/Library/

sites/default/files/Library/*
!sites/default/files/Library/bannerpt2.jpg
...

Upvotes: 5

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