How to git ignore subfolders / subdirectories?

Question

I have a lot of projects in my .Net solution. I would like to exclude all \"bin/Debug\" and \"bin/Release\" folders (and their contents), but still include the \"bin\" folde

Answer 1

The generic way to ignore all subfolders, while continuing to track the files that are in the /bin directory would be to add the following line to your project's .gitignore file:

bin/*/*

If you want to ignore only particular named subfolders, you can do:

bin/Debug/*
bin/Release/*

nb. if the bin directory is not in the root of your project (alongside the .gitignore file), then instead of eg. bin/*/* you might need path/to/bin/*/*