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I have a problem to get .gitignore to do what I want. My folder structure looks like so:
assets
├── img
| ├── thousands
| ├── of
| ├── folders
| ├── KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER
| | ├── another
| | ├── thousands
| | ├── of
| | ├── folders
| | ├── KEEP_THIS_FILE_1.jpg
| | ├── KEEP_THIS_FILE_2.jpg
| | ├── KEEP_THIS_FILE_3.jpg
I try to keep the three jpgs. I tried
/assets/img/*
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/
/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/*/
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/KEEP_THIS_FILE_*.jpg
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There are several locations where Git looks for ignore files. Besides looking in the root folder of a Git project, Git also checks if there is a . gitignore in every subdirectory. This way you can ignore files on a finer grained level if different folders need different rules.
If you want to maintain a folder and not the files inside it, just put a ". gitignore" file in the folder with "*" as the content. This file will make Git ignore all content from the repository.
To remove a file from an Ignore List in Solution Explorer, context-click the file and select Manage Files > Remove from Ignore List.
You need to create .gitignore file in specified folder. In "KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER" in your case. And write this lines:
/**
/*.jpg
!not_ignore.jpg
At first commit this .gitignore file and then try commit your files.
But if your files already has been staged (tracked), try git rm --cached <filePath> these files.
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You were close:
/assets/img/*
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/
# changed this:
# /assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/*/
# to:
# /assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/*
/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/*
!/assets/img/KEEP_SOMETHING_IN_THIS_FOLDER/KEEP_THIS_FILE_*.jpg
You don't need the trailing slash on the ignore for the child folder (the 3rd line).
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