Make .gitignore ignore everything except a few files

Question

I understand that a .gitignore file cloaks specified files from Git\'s version control. I have a project (LaTeX) that generates lots of extra files (.auth, .dvi, .pdf, logs,

Answer 1

I got this working

# Vendor
/vendor/braintree/braintree_php/*
!/vendor/braintree/braintree_php/lib