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lupl
lupl

Reputation: 954

Git doesn't track folders

I am trying to track my dotfiles and config folders with git. I set up my .gitignore to ignore all (*) but the files and folders I want to track: 

### Gitignore
# ignore all
**
!**/
# but...
# files
!.vimrc
!.Xdefault
!.bashrc
!.profile
!.xsession
!.gitignore
# folders
!.vim/**
!.config/i3/**
!.config/ranger/**

This however works only for the files, not for folders. If I try to manually add a folder (eg. git add .config/i3) I get The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files: .config/i3 Use -f if you really want to add them.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 283

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329722

If you ignore all: **, you need to whitelist folders before being able to exclude files (because if a folder is ignored, its content won't be examined for exclusion)

So:

**
!**/

Then you can add files exclusions:

# but 
# files (eg)
!.Xdefaults
!.vimrc
# etc
# folders (eg)
!./.vim/**
!./.config/ranger/**
!./.config/i3/**

Check with git check-ignore -v -- a/file that those rules do apply.

Upvotes: 1

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