Remove specific folder and allowed others of same name through .gitignore

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I've folders (documents) of same name in different folder paths of the source structure. Some I want to avoid add into the Git repo while other to add. If I put something like below everything removed.

documents/

What I have tried:

So I've added multiple paths, and there a lot.

path/path/documents/
path/documents/
path/path/path/documents

I there a simple way to do this?

Posted 3-Jul-18 20:01pm

CodingLover

Updated 3-Jul-18 20:13pm

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User 7429338 · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-03T20:13:00

Solution 1

If you have a lot of documents directories to ignore and few to allow, you could use whitelists instead:

# Ignore all documents directories
documents/
#Except these
!path/to/folder/documents/
!path/to/another/folder/documents/

Posted 3-Jul-18 20:13pm

User 7429338

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CodingLover 4-Jul-18 5:26am

That's exactly I was looking for. Thanks.