Git Ignore everything in a directory except subfolders
Please don't misuse .gitignore
files. Better stick to default ways to go on this, so later developers can quickly get into your project.
- Add an empty
.gitkeep
file in the folders that you want to commit without the files -
Exclude the folders, but not the
.gitkeep
from your main.gitignore
file.folder/* !folder/.gitkeep
This ignores all files in a folder, but not the .gitkeep
file. Now the folder will be commited with only the .gitkeep
file as content.
The solution is quite easy, add !*/
to the .gitignore files and only files in the current folder will be ignored
# Ignore everything in this directory
*
# Except this file
!.gitignore
# Except folders
!*/