Telling git to ignore symlinks

Question

This question has appeared in similar forms here and here, but they don\'t seem to match up with what I\'m looking for.

I\'m making a project in StaticMatic, a Ruby

Answer 1

If you really want to ignore a filename if it's a symlink or file but not if it is a directory, you can add to .gitignore :

/media
!/media/

To formulate it like @Chris_Rasys, this will :

• Ignore - (symlink) ./media
• Ignore - (file) ./media
• Do not ignore - (directory) ./media
• Do not ignore - ./something/media
• Do not ignore - ./media.bak
• Do not ignore - ./media-somethingelse