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I want to ignore all of .gitignore rules in subdirectory except .gitignore rules in root.

for example) I have already .gitignore file in a directory structure /a.

And also have .gitignore file in /a/b. Assume /a have a.txtb.txt files.

/a/b has .config file. .gitignore defines .config in /a/b.

.config file will be ignored by .gitignore in /a/b.

But I really want to track .config file by ignoring rules of .gitignore in subdirectory.

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance

jeon

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Your question isn't too clear, but if there are some subdirectories where you want different gitignore rules, you can just create a new .gitignore in that directory.

Say you have:

The .gitignore in stuff/ will override the .gitignore in the root directory.

git help gitignore or man gitignore has quite a bit more information about what's possible.

signinesignine

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Lets say you want to include node_modules in your repository, but some module down the line has .gitignore of its own. You can negate the rules by adding the following to your root .gitignore file:

Nick ZalutskiyNick Zalutskiy

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The key to the problem here is that a parent directory is excluded. From $ man gitignore:

It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn’t list excluded directories for performance reasons, so any patterns on contained files have no effect, no matter where they are defined.

Here's how I've gotten it to work. Given:

/.gitignore:

Then /b/foo will show up as included files while everything in /a and /c will be excluded. The trade off is that you have to do add a negation for all of the parents of any directory in which you want to include files.

Ross PattersonRoss Patterson

As far as i know there's no way to do it. As the local .gitignore will overwrite the root ginignoreMy workaround is adding manually.

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