Git Won't Un-Ignore a Directory

Question

I\'d like to only track certain directories in git in a larger project, where most directories will be excluded and only a few will be tracked. So, I wanted to use

Answer 1

Reviving an old post, in case someone else stumbles on this:

If you want to ignore all folders/files in the current directory, use a leading slash (/*/ for directories or /* for files); else Git will ignore the pattern recursively, which will cause files in unignored directories to be ignored too...

With that in mind, the !directory/ pattern unignores directories just fine.