How to .gitignore files recursively

Question

I\'m trying to avoid the following pattern in my .gitignore file.

MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*.js
MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/*/*.js
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Answer 1

Following gitignore manual page:

[...] git treats the pattern as a shell glob suitable for consumption by fnmatch(3) with the FNM_PATHNAME flag: wildcards in the pattern will not match a / in the pathname.

So, this clearly stands that there is no way to specify a certain amount of directories between two strings, like between special and js.

Nevertheless, you can have a .gitignore file per directory, so maybe in your case the following content

*.js

at the following place

MyPrject/WebApp/Scripts/special/.gitignore

would be sufficient?