Git Ignore everything in a directory except subfolders

Question

This is my folder structure:

data/
    .gitignore
    uploads/
        .gitignore

I would like to commit the folders but not the files insi

Answer 1

The solution is quite easy, add !*/ to the .gitignore files and only files in the current folder will be ignored

# Ignore everything in this directory
*
# Except this file
!.gitignore
# Except folders
!*/