I have the folder application/
which I add to the .gitignore
. Inside the application/
folder is the folder application/language/gr
. How can I include this folder?
I've tried this
application/
!application/language/gr/
with no luck…
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I have the folder application/
which I add to the .gitignore
. Inside the application/
folder is the folder application/language/gr
. How can I include this folder?
I've tried this
application/
!application/language/gr/
with no luck…
Best Answer
If you exclude
application/
, then everything under it will always be excluded (even if some later negative exclusion pattern (“unignore”) might match something underapplication/
).To do what you want, you have to “unignore” every parent directory of anything that you want to “unignore”. Usually you end up writing rules for this situation in pairs: ignore everything in a directory, but not some certain subdirectory.
Note
The trailing
/*
is significant:dir/
excludes a directory nameddir
and (implicitly) everything under it.With
dir/
, Git will never look at anything underdir
, and thus will never apply any of the “un-exclude” patterns to anything underdir
.dir/*
says nothing aboutdir
itself; it just excludes everything underdir
. Withdir/*
, Git will process the direct contents ofdir
, giving other patterns a chance to “un-exclude” some bit of the content (!dir/sub/
).