The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files

Question

I tried to add a folder iceberg/static/icon into my repo but this fails with error:

shen-3:New Platform shen$ git add iceberg/static/icon
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
iceberg/static/icon

This is my .gitignore. I am really confused that I don't understand which item matches my file.

hello/
deploy_server/
gunicorn_start
Vida.env/

# IDE conf
.idea/
.vscode/

# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
*$py.class

# C extensions
*.so

# Distribution / packaging
.Python
env/
build/
develop-eggs/
downloads/
eggs/
.eggs/
lib/
lib64/
parts/
sdist/
var/
wheels/
*.egg-info/
.installed.cfg
*.egg

# PyInstaller
#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
*.manifest
*.spec

# Installer logs
pip-log.txt
pip-delete-this-directory.txt

# Unit test / coverage reports
htmlcov/
.tox/
.coverage
.coverage.*
.cache
nosetests.xml
coverage.xml
*.cover
.hypothesis/

# Translations
*.mo
*.pot

# Django stuff:
*.log
staticfiles/
local_settings.py
migrations/

# Flask stuff:
instance/
.webassets-cache

# Scrapy stuff:
.scrapy

# Sphinx documentation
docs/_build/

# PyBuilder
target/

# Jupyter Notebook
.ipynb_checkpoints

# pyenv
.python-version

# celery beat schedule file
celerybeat-schedule

# SageMath parsed files
*.sage.py

# dotenv
.env

# virtualenv
.venv
venv/
ENV/

# Spyder project settings
.spyderproject
.spyproject

# Rope project settings
.ropeproject

# mkdocs documentation
/site

# mypy
.mypy_cache/

Is there any other reason this happens?

Any insight into why my folder isn't being added would be appreciated! :) Thank you!

Full url you want /Users/shen/Desktop/New Platform/iceberg/static/icon

Answer 1

add the following line to your .gitignore:

!iceberg/static/icon

The bang (!) character in a .gitignore file means to not ignore the specified path.