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gitignore - only allow certain extensions and files

I'm using the following code to ignore all files except for certain filenames and extension

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

For some reason, its only allowing me to commit the .gitignore and readme.md, even though I have php files in subfolders etc. Is there anything wrong with it? Just fyi, I'm using "git add -A" to pick up the files to commit.

Solution

  • 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.