Git ignore jpg in all directories besides one

Question

I want to modify my .gitignore so I can ignore all .jpg files which aren't in /public/assets/images.

I have tried the following:

(!/public/assets/images/)!*.jpg

/public/assets/images/!*.jpg

However besides those two I am not sure what else to try.

Answer 1

Try ignoring all jpg files, then explicitly unignoring /public/assets/images:

**/*.jpg
!/public/assets/images/*.jpg

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