How to ignore _vti_cnf and _vti_pvt folders in the nominated folder and all sub-folders of nominated folder?

Question

I have this in my .gitignore file located in the root of my repository:

# Expression Web tracking files
/Help/_vti_cnf
/Help/_vti_pvt

But it turns out I need to ignore these two folders in any sub folder of Help or below. See:

How do I modify it to do that?

Answer 1

There is no path which starts with /Help/_vti_cnf, thus no files are ignored. Change to /Help/PublisherDatabase/_vti_cnf, /Help/*/_vti_cnf (all direct subfolders contining _vti_cnf), /Help/**/_vti_cnf (all subfolders containing _vti_cnf) or _vti_cnf (ignore _vti_cnf everywhere).

For more information see https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore