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You want to use /* instead of * or */ in most cases The above code would ignore all files except for . gitignore , README.md , folder/a/file. txt , folder/a/b1/ and folder/a/b2/ and everything contained in those last two folders.
gitignore file is a plain text file where each line contains a pattern for files/directories to ignore. Generally, this is placed in the root folder of the repository, and that's what I recommend. However, you can put it in any folder in the repository and you can also have multiple . gitignore files.
A trailing " /** " matches everything inside. For example, " abc/** " matches all files inside directory " abc ", relative to the location of the . gitignore file, with infinite depth. A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash matches zero or more directories.
Use ! to negate the pattern:
*.dll
!myfile.dll
If you want to ignore whole folder, except some specific files, then write:
MyFolder/*
!MyFolder/CoolFile.txt
This won't work:
MyFolder/
!MyFolder/CoolFile.txt
You can also ignore folders like
!src/main/resources/archetype-resources/**/*
you can also ignore nested folder with patterns like
!**/src/test/resources/**/*
For quick creation of .gitignore file try gitignore.io
You can have several .gitignore files working together in a hierarchical manner to achieve your goal.
At the root level you may have:
root
*.dll
inside the folder having the myfile.dll you can add another .gitignore file like so:
root/lib/folderwithMyFiledll
!myfile.dll
more info here
An optional prefix "!" which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. Put a backslash ("\") in front of the first "!" for patterns that begin with a literal "!", for example, "!important!.txt". It is possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded if certain conditions are met. See section NOTES for detail.
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