is it possible to ignore .gitignore rules in subdirectory?

Question

I want to ignore all of .gitignore rules in subdirectory except .gitignore rules in root.

for example) I have already .gitignore file in a directory structure /a.

And also have .gitignore file in /a/b. Assume /a have a.txt b.txt files.

/a/b has .config file. .gitignore defines .config in /a/b.

.config file will be ignored by .gitignore in /a/b.

But I really want to track .config file by ignoring rules of .gitignore in subdirectory.

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Your question isn't too clear, but if there are some subdirectories where you want different gitignore rules, you can just create a new .gitignore in that directory.

Say you have:

 project/.gitignore project/stuff/.gitignore 

The .gitignore in stuff/ will override the .gitignore in the root directory.

git help gitignore or man gitignore has quite a bit more information about what's possible.

Answer 2

Lets say you want to include node_modules in your repository, but some module down the line has .gitignore of its own. You can negate the rules by adding the following to your root .gitignore file:

# Make sure to include everything in node_modules. !node_modules/**