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Git ignore list of all files in subdirectory, recursively

My software project is modular. Some files are committed by the developer in designated subdirectories, others are uncompressed to provide a runtime environment (web resources) for development and do not need to be executed.

- webapp
   - common (provided)
   - error (provided)
   - secure
      - admin (provided)
      - audit (provided)
      - ftt (provided)
   - WEB-INF (to ignore)

I want to ignore everything under webapp except all files in /webapp/secure/ftt

and its subdirectories.

I tried

/webapp
!/webapp/secure/ftt

But Git still ignores ftt.

I expect these directories to contain only files .jsp

and .js

. But I cannot know what will happen in the future (like gif, pdf, etc.)

How can I tell Git to whitelist in /webapp/secure/ftt

and ignore everything else in /webapp

?

From my research, I've found that this is not possible without listing each specific subdirectory and file template.

[Add] after @DevDonkey comment I tried to clean up the whole gitignore file and leave what it posted

/webapp/*
!/webapp/secure/ftt

Along with a lot of useless files (like .class files) that are now candidates for indexing, since as I said I emptied gitignore, I believe that sample.jsp is still being ignored

See yourself

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What about

/webapp/*
!/webapp/secure/ftt


works for me locally. Note the addition of the forward slash and wildcard, so git keeps the root folder but then processes the rest.

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You should do some inelegant solution like expanding a single file .gitignore

into a directory /webapp/secure/ftt

based on the following:

# Ignore any file in this directory except for this file and *.foo files
*
!/.gitignore
!*.foo


If you don't want or can't add this .gitignore file, there is an inelegant solution:

# Ignore any file but *.foo under Resources. Update this if we add deeper directories
Resources/*
!Resources/*/
!Resources/*.foo
Resources/*/*
!Resources/*/*/
!Resources/*/*.foo
Resources/*/*/*
!Resources/*/*/*/
!Resources/*/*/*.foo
Resources/*/*/*/*
!Resources/*/*/*/*/
!Resources/*/*/*/*.foo
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