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denns
denns

Reputation: 1131

Unignore specific Files in Subdirectory with .gitignore

I have a problem to get .gitignore to do what I want. My folder structure looks like so:

assets
├── img
|   ├── thousands
|   ├── of
|   ├── folders
|   ├── KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER
|   |   ├── another
|   |   ├── thousands
|   |   ├── of
|   |   ├── folders
|   |   ├── KEEP_THIS_FILE_1.jpg
|   |   ├── KEEP_THIS_FILE_2.jpg
|   |   ├── KEEP_THIS_FILE_3.jpg

I try to keep the three jpgs. I tried

/assets/img/*
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/
/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/*/
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/KEEP_THIS_FILE_*.jpg

Upvotes: 22

Views: 14748

Answers (4)

Alexmelyon
Alexmelyon

Reputation: 1239

You need to create .gitignore file in specified folder. In "KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER" in your case. And write this lines:

/**
/*.jpg
!not_ignore.jpg

At first commit this .gitignore file and then try commit your files.
But if your files already has been staged (tracked), try git rm --cached <filePath> these files.

Upvotes: 20

Mr.True
Mr.True

Reputation: 339

you can do like this:

# exclude everything except directory foo/bar
/*
!/foo
/foo/*
!/foo/bar

and like:

# exclude /filepath/includes/a.java
/*
!/filepath
/filepath/*
!/filepath/includes
/filepath/includes/*
!/filepath/includes/a.java

by the way If you wanna ignore all jar (*.jar), but wanna exclude

/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/*.jar

Do this in your .gitignore

# Package Files #
*.jar
# exclude /src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/*.jar
!/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/*.jar

Upvotes: 7

Jitsusama
Jitsusama

Reputation: 765

When running man gitignore from a *nix workstation, and looking at the PATTERN FORMAT section, I found the following statement:

  • An optional prefix "!" which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn't list excluded directories for performance reasons, so any patterns on contained files have no effect, no matter where they are defined. Put a backslash ("\") in front of the first "!" for patterns that begin with a literal "!", for example, "!important!.txt".

Notice the bolded section. In the case you presented, where you want to unignore files that fall under a sub-directory of the directory you are ignoring, the "un-ignore" ! operator will not function. Instead, you must be more specific with the ignore pattern.

Try this on for size:

/assets/img/*/*
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/KEEP_THIS_FILE*.jpg

Upvotes: 15

Thomas Stringer
Thomas Stringer

Reputation: 5862

You were close:

/assets/img/*
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/

# changed this:
# /assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/*/
# to:
# /assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/*
/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/*
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/KEEP_THIS_FILE_*.jpg

You don't need the trailing slash on the ignore for the child folder (the 3rd line).

Upvotes: 11

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