Git ignore subfolders but not the files in a folder

Question

I've been looking around and just could not find the same scenario that I have. I have:

--public       |--img            |--logo (folder)            |--post_image (folder)            |--banner.jpg            |--icon.ico            |--image1.jpg            |-........etc 

I need to ignore the logo and post_image folders, but I want to keep every file that is inside img folder. How would I go about it?

Right now I have **/public/img but I feel is not the right approach!

Answer 1

I found this to be simpler (at least in the case there are many subfolders):

public/img/*/ 

This will exclude all subfolders in public/img/, but will not exclude the files in this folder.

Answer 2

You can put a .gitignore file into any child directory, it doesn't have to be at the root. In your case, a .gitignore file in the public/img directory with the content:

logo post_image 

would do the job.

For another approaches, you might want to look at:

• gitignore all files of extension in directory
• Git-ignore certain files in sub-directories, but not all