setup git to ignore index.php in root folder only and not all index.php files in subfolders

Question

I have .gitignore as

index.php
protected/config/

I wanted to ignore only index.php in root but git is ignoring all files with index.php in sub-folders as well. How I can modify .gitignore to ignore only specific index.php file and not all files with name index.php

Answer 1

Use /index.php in your .gitignore