gitignore - only allow certain extensions and files

Question

not sure why this isn\'t working, as I\'ve done this loads! Maybe I\'m having a bad day...

I\'m using the following code to ignore all files except for certain filen

Answer 1

The solution is to tell Git not to ignore sub directories:

*
!.gitattributes
!.gitignore
!readme.md
!.gitkeep
!*.php
!*/

Otherwise, only the *.php files in the first directory level will be accepted and all sub directories will be ignored.

Answer 2

The most sophisticated method to achieve this

create .gitignore file in repository root, and add below lines to .gitignore file

*.*
!.gitattributes
!.gitignore
!readme.md
!.gitkeep
!*.php

this will include all specified file from directory and subdirectory recursively.

tested on

git version 2.12.2.windows.2