Is there a way to tell git to only include certain files instead of ignoring certain files?

Question

My programs generally generate huge output files (~1 GB) which I do not want to be backing up to the git repository. So instead of being able to do

git add          


        

Answer 1

create .gitignore file in your repository and you want to track only c files and ignore all other files then add the following lines to it....

*
!*.c

'*' will ignore all files

and ! will negate files be to ignored....so here we are asking git not to ignore c files....