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Gitignore falsely excludes a subfile

I have a directory structure like this:

project
├── .gitignore
└── parent
    └── file.ts

Gitignore file content:

parent/*
!file.ts

Git does ignore everything under parent but file.ts which is weird because i did not exclude file.ts in parent dir in my .gitignore file.

What might be reason?

Solution

  • In gitignore, entries without a / mean all files in any directory.

    This, file.ts matches all files named file.ts in any directories.

    If you only want to exclude a file.ts on the top directory (where the .gitignore is) then use ./file.ts.