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Whitelist folder inside ignored folder

I have a node.js project with some node_modules. Now a node_module was not upto expectations and I manually changed, compiled and put it back into the node_module folder.

I want to add this module to the GIT, however, the node_modules are listed in my gitignore (obviously).

I tried the following

/node_modules !/node_modules/the_module/**

But files are not showing up when doing git status

Is it possible to whitelist one package inside a ignored folder?

Solution

  • Ok so basically the answer is:

    /node_modules/*
!/node_modules/the_module