Git ignore is ignoring some of the wrong files

Question

I have the following .gitignore file, and whenever I do git add . only the .gitignore file gets added to the repo, what is wrong with my ignore file?

Here is the file:

# Ignore Everything
*

# Except for these:
!.gitignore
!Assets/
!ProjectSettings/

Answer 1

The wildcard without a leading slash is excluding everything within all directories.

Here's the sample code that the gitignore documentation suggests (modified for your case)

# exclude everything 
/*
!/Assets
!/ProjectSettings

Here's the documentation site: http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore