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Pentagon
Pentagon

Reputation: 123

.gitignore not working properly for excluding sub folders

I ignore all files except for some folders as shown below in the .gitignore file.

  *
  !.gitignore
  !/sample1/test1/
  !sample1/test1/*

My issue is , it only keeps track of files under test1 folder which already exist , when i make new file, it ignores to track it.

may i know any solution ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 467

Answers (2)

mrf
mrf

Reputation: 546

You can not directly include already excluded nested direcory. * excludes everything so firstly you need to negate exclusion for sample1 directory and later for test1 subfolder. That will work as you expect:

*
!.gitignore
!/sample1/
/sample1/*
!/sample1/test1
!/sample1/test1/*

Upvotes: 2

klutt
klutt

Reputation: 31389

This works when I try it:

*
!.gitignore           
!sample1/
sample1/*
!sample1/test1/
!sample1/test1/*

Upvotes: 1

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