Unignore subdirectories of ignored directories in Git

Question

Let\'s say I have ignored a directory, but I want to unignore specific subdirectories therein. So I have the setup:

/uploads/
/uploads/rubbish/
/uploads/rubb         


        

Answer 1

Was trying to figure out how to include a specific folder when excluding all folders with the generic exclusion

**/build

if you add the /* to the end of your generic exclude you continue to exclude all build files **/build/*

Then you add another line to correct for the path that you want to be included to look like

!**/folder/build/* 

leaving us a gitignore that reads

**/build/* 
!**/folder/build/*