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I have the following directory structure: src/ out/ cout/ ... and I want to ignore out/ but not cout/ . I've tried putting ^out/ , but that doesn't seem to work. I've also tried out/ but that also ignores cout/ . Any suggestions? Exclamation mark(!) should precede a match which should not be ignored. The .gitignore file should look like: out/ !cout/ Sorry guys, my mistake! The cout directory was empty and, therefore, not showing up under git status . Just adding out/ works fine and doesn't ignore cout/ . Thanks a lot! Which version of git are you using? With msysgit 1.6.3-preview20090507-2,

If I have a "vendors" directory in my .gitignore, is there a way I can set up a remote that will receive that directory anyway when I do a push? I think the functionality you're looking for can be achieved by having a branch used to deploy to your Cloud Provider. Setup a dev branch which includes your .gitignore file, check your incremental work into that branch. Merge your dev branch into your deploy branch which doesn't contain a .gitignore file but contains the vendors directory. once you've completed your merge, push to the deployment remote from your deploy branch. Your .gitignore file

I have an App.Local.config file which each developer has their own settings in. I do not want this file checked versioned in the GIT repo as every time it would be overwritten by another developers changes. So I deleted the file from the repo and added it to the ignore file. But now when developers switch branches, App.Local.config is deleted from their local filesystem. Ultimately what i would like is: new dev clones repo, gets a starting version of App.Local.config dev makes changes to App.Local.config. Git will ignore changes and not stage/checkin dev switches branches, changes to App.Local

I would like to make sure that git ignores any log files that are created on a rotating basis. For instance debug.log debug.log.1 debug.log.2 debug.log.10 should all be ignored. I am currently using *.log and *.log.[0-9] to ignore the first 3 in the list. To capture the third, I know I could use *.log.[0-9][0-9] . However, I'd prefer to find a one line solution that could capture all of these. Is there a way to tell the gitignore file to match one or more digits? Sadly but .gitigore use glob instead of regex for matching, which means there's not a good way to do it. Otherwise, Git treats the

I have a central repository with a subset of files that I want to protect from being changed (by pushing) from other users. If I add these files to .gitignore , they would not be cloned. Is it possible to give the ability to clone all files, but after cloning add some of them to .gitignore on the client side? You can have the files in the repository, commit them, then add them to the .gitignore and then remove them from the next commit. You can still fetch the files directly prior commit (perhaps tag it with something so it can be fetched by name a bit easier) and this will preserve the state

npm 5 introduced package-lock.json , of which the documentation is here . It states that the file is intended to be included with version control, so anyone cloning your package and installing it will have the same dependency versions. In other words, you should not add it to your .gitignore file. What it does not state is wether or not the file is intended to be included with a published package. This question could be rephrased as; should package-lock.json be included in .npmignore? It cannot be published. From the npm documentation: One key detail about package-lock.json is that it cannot