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Ioan Kats
Ioan Kats

Reputation: 521

Cannot include a file from an excluded directory with .gitignore on Vs Code

I have a directory in VS Code which is excluded with .gitignore . Let's name this directory txt_files.

In this directory i have a file which i would like to be included in my git thought. Let's name this file file.txt

This is what's my .gitignore file looks like.

#ignore /venv files 
/venv

#ignore vscode files 
.vscode

# txt_files_folder
/txt_files

# include this file
!/txt_files/file.txt

but when i hit git status i get no updates to add /txt_files/file.txt.

What am i doing wrong ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 218

Answers (2)

j6t
j6t

Reputation: 13387

If it is a singular exception that you want to track txt_files/file.txt, it is sufficient to

git add -f txt_files/file.txt

once. Thereafter, it will be tracked and any changes you make to the file will be detected.

(If you do not have a command line to do that, you can remove /txt_files from .gitignore temporarily until you have added the file.)

If it can happen repeatedly, or there is a pattern of files that you want to add, you better follow @code_fodder's answer.

Upvotes: 0

code_fodder
code_fodder

Reputation: 16331

To ignore a folder you do folder/ but this will ignore everything within and not allow for exclusions. So what you need to do there is:

# Ignore things within txt_files (not txt_files itself)
txt_files/*
# But not file.txt.
!txt_files/file.txt

if you do the entire folder it means its children also get excluded regardless of exclusions

Upvotes: 1

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