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Vedant Agarwala
Vedant Agarwala

Reputation: 18819

Un-ignoring a file in an ignored directory in git

In my .gititnore I have an entry:

/build

Which works well- the entire directory is ignored by git. Now, I just want to make an exception to this rule and keep this file /build/outputs/mapping/release/mapping.txt in git.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 80

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324827

The current rule for gitignore is

It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded.

That means:

  • you need to ignore all the files recursively: that is '**'
  • exclude all the folders recursively: those are '**/'
  • exclude the file you want (which will work because its parent folder is not ignored as well)

Result:

/build/**
!/build/**/
!/build/outputs/mapping/release/mapping.txt

Check what is and is not ignored with git check-ignore -v (the -v is important):

git check-ignore -v -- afile

Upvotes: 4

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