Git .gitignore to ignore only folder in root directory

Question

Here is my .gitignore

static/ 

and I have installed git on the folder named project there is a folder named static and another folder called app and inside the app folder, there is another folder static. The above .gitignore ignore both static folders, That is not what I want.

What I want is to ignore the folder project/static/ not the folder project/app/static/ How can I do that?

Answer 1

Just add / before static/, should be like

  /static/  # ^ forward slash before the folder name signifies root dir