Suppose there is a 2-level nesting of directories

a1{1..10}/a{1..10}/{test}, b1..., ... w...

How can I exclude a1, a2, a3, a4, but leave a {1..4} / a1 / {test}?

Example:

 mkdir -pa{1..10}/a{1..10} cat .gitignore 
 !a2/test a1/a2 a2 !a1/a2/test 
 touch {a1,a2,a1/a2}/test git status a2/test a1/a2/test 
 На ветке master Начальный коммит нечего коммитить (создайте/скопируйте файлы, затем запустите «git add», чтобы отслеживать их)

Those. so it does not work. It turns out I need to describe in .gitignore the following structure for each file:

 cat .gitignore 
 !a1/ a1/* !a1/a1 a1/a1/* !a1/a1/test

And if> 5 levels of nesting?
Is it possible to make it easier?

    1 answer 1

    If you have a fixed set of files in these test directories, then you can add them through --force once.

     git add --force a{1..4}/a{1..4}/test

    Now the git will keep track of all the files that were already in those directories, contrary to the general .gitignore . It will not work on new files, but you can add force again.

    • The working variant is only in force, if there are 5 levels of nesting and you need to ignore a1, leave a1 / a2 / a3 / a4 / a {1..4} / test, with multiple .gitignore will also be “convenient” - tannerman
    • @tannerman but about nested ones I’ll take it away then - Nick Volynkin ♦