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SkiF
SkiF

Reputation: 45

.gitignore: How to ignore file and not ignore folder

I want to ignore files without exclamation marks. I think that the regular expression is *[!.]*, but this ignores folders names too. Does .gitignore have a folder/file marker?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 72

Answers (2)

shirakia
shirakia

Reputation: 2409

First, ! is a special character in regexp. So you should use it with \ if you want to use ! as just a character.　And your regexp has some other bugs. Your regexp should be *\!*

To recognize folders, you can use / at the end. And to unignore file/folder, you can use the prefix ! at the front.

Finally, your .gitignore file should be

*\!*
!*\!*/

Upvotes: 0

mbuechmann
mbuechmann

Reputation: 5760

A folder in .gitignore ends with a /. I tried to use your expression, but I did not get it to work. But the following entries seem to do the trick:

# Ignore Everything
*
# Unignore all files with extensions
!*.*
# Unignore all folders
!*/

So when you have these files:

a
a.txt
b/a
b/a.txt

the files a and b/a get ignored.

Upvotes: 1

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