I want to ignore all files in my repository except those that occur in the bin subdirectory. I tried adding the following to my .gitignore:
*
!bin/*
This does not have the desired effect, however: I created a new file inside of bin/, but doing git status still shows nothing to commit (working directory clean).
Any suggestions?
The only issue you have is that the bin directory itself is not matched by the bin/* pattern so git isn't even look in the bin directory.
There are two solutions that spring to mind.
.gitignore :
*
!/bin/
!bin/*
or
.gitignore :
*
!/bin/
bin/.gitignore :
!*
I prefer the second solution as the first solution won't stop ignoring files in the bin directories that are in subdirectories that aren't called bin. This may or may not matter in your situation.
I had to do this recently:
*
!sub-dir/
!sub-dir/*
I'm not sure why I need two lines for to exclude one folder, but this is what worked for me and macos.
Late to the party, but none of the answers worked for me "out of the box". This one does:
*
!bin
!bin/**
Here is my solution. In my scenario I had a folder with subfolders as follow:
And from the database folder I wanted to push the sql folder only so my .gitignore file was as follow:
database/*
!database/sql/
Where the first line simply say ignore all subfolder(s) of the database folder and the second line meaning since you are ignoring all subfolder(s) of the database folder exclude(don't ignore) the sql subfolder
To me it turns out I should not ignore the parent folder but files and folders in it using /*
-- **/node_modules
++ **/node_modules/*
then
++ !node_modules/@my-package/