I have the following project structure:
A
├── a.py
├── B
│ └── b.py
└── C
where I would like to ignore all contents of A, but include all *.py files recursively.
My .gitignore looks like this:
A/*
!A/**/*.py
which does not seem to give the desired behavior - only a.py is tracked in this case. What am I missing? I would like to avoid defining subdirectory-specific rules like !A/B/*.py.
The problem with A/* is that it matches A/B and when a directory first is excluded, children of it are unavailable ("It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded").
So when excluding everything under A there is no way out of including all the directories again. You can however split the directories and pyhton files re-inclusion like the following:
A/*
!A/B
A/B/*
!A/C
A/C/*
!**/*.py