Whitelist nested files and folders using .gitignore

Question

I want to exclude entire android/ & ios/ folder

And I want to include the following files in it:

android/settings.gradle
android/app/build.gradle
android/build.gradle
android/app/src/main/java/com/reactnativegoogleadmob/MainApplication.java

ios/Podfile
ios/ReactNativeGoogleAdmob/AppDelegate.h
ios/ReactNativeGoogleAdmob/AppDelegate.m

So my .gitignore is:

# Remove following directories

android/*
ios/*

# Add following files

!android/settings.gradle
!android/app/build.gradle
!android/build.gradle
!android/app/src/main/java/com/reactnativegoogleadmob/MainApplication.java

!ios/Podfile
!ios/ReactNativeGoogleAdmob/AppDelegate.h
!ios/ReactNativeGoogleAdmob/AppDelegate.m

But it only includes top level files like:

android/settings.gradle
android/build.gradle
ios/Podfile

I also tried android/**/* & ios/**/* but it gives same results as android/* & ios/*.

How do I include the rest of the files? I tried other solutions too but hitting a roadblock.

Answer 1

I managed to make this thing work thanks to @axiac's answer here.

Read it before reading the solution below as it explains much better than I can explain -

android/*

!android/build.gradle
!android/settings.gradle

!android/app/
android/app/*
!android/app/build.gradle
!android/app/src
android/app/src/*
!android/app/src/main
android/app/src/main/*
!android/app/src/main/java
android/app/src/main/java/*
!android/app/src/main/java/com
android/app/src/main/java/com/*
android/app/src/main/java/com/reactnativegoogleadmob/*
!android/app/src/main/java/com/reactnativegoogleadmob
!android/app/src/main/java/com/reactnativegoogleadmob/MainApplication.java

ios/*

!ios/Podfile

!ios/ReactNativeGoogleAdmob/
ios/ReactNativeGoogleAdmob/*
!ios/ReactNativeGoogleAdmob/AppDelegate.h
!ios/ReactNativeGoogleAdmob/AppDelegate.m