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Git: ignore files but not sub-directories in a directory

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I have a project in which all development is done at some directory depth, and so I'm used to cd-ing to a second-level directory and write some temporary files there. The tree looks like this:

repo
    .git/
    project/
        dev/
            important_stuff/
            more_stuff/
            README
        prod/
            important_stuff/
            more_stuff/
            README
        temp_1.txt
        test.cc

I would like to git-ignore exactly files that are directly in project/ - temp_1.txt and test.cc in this case. How can I do this?

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Dunaril Avatar asked Dec 06 '13 16:12

Dunaril


1 Answers

You can do the following:

project/*
!project/*/

This will ignore all files in project but unignore all directories in project.

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Nils Werner Avatar answered Oct 24 '22 01:10

Nils Werner