Whitelist folder inside ignored folder [duplicate]

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• Git Including an arbitrarily nested subfolder when its parent has been excluded in .gitignore 2 answers

I have a node.js project with some node_modules. Now a node_module was not upto expectations and I manually changed, compiled and put it back into the node_module folder.

I want to add this module to the GIT, however, the node_modules are listed in my gitignore (obviously).

I tried the following

/node_modules !/node_modules/the_module/**

But files are not showing up when doing git status

Is it possible to whitelist one package inside a ignored folder?

Answer 1

Ok so basically the answer is:

/node_modules/*
!/node_modules/the_module

Answer 2

Try adding the files manually (generally this takes precedence over .gitignore-style rules):

git add /path/to/module

You may even want the -N intent to add flag, to suggest you will add them, but not immediately. I often do this for new files I’m not ready to stage yet.