Git will not pickup .tga files

Question

I've got a directory structure as shown below. The / is the base of the Git repo, not root. I just inited the repo, I haven't hooked it up to any remote repository yet.

/ (In here is just a .dm file I want)
/LodumViralDeath/ (In here are some .tga files I want to keep)

I added a .gitignore file to / that looks like this.

*
!LodumViralDeath.dm
!LodumViralDeath/

And there are several .tga files inside of /LodumViralDeath/ but Git does not pick any of them up whne I do git status, instead it shows this.

$ git status
# On branch master
#
# Initial commit
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#       LodumViralDeath.dm
#       LodumViralDeath/

Not sure how to get it to recognize the fact that the binary .tgas are there!

And just as a sanity check, here's the directory listing. / is equal to /c/dominions3/mods/

$ pwd
/c/dominions3/mods/LodumViralDeath

$ ls
boomer1.tga  boomer2.tga  cultivatedBrainMass1.tga  cultivatedBrainMass2.tga  lodumbanner.tga  slimeDippedNecromancer1.tga  slimeDippedNecromancer2.tga  smokestack1.tga  smokestack2.tga

And there are plenty of examples with this, as shown here. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1248570/git-ignore-everything-except-subdirectory — Jazzepi, Jul 18 '13 at 03:57

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '13 at 04:20

Looks like you're just confused by the output of git status. When git status shows a directory like the following line:

#       LodumViralDeath/

it means that there are some number of (untracked in this case) files in that folder. It only shows the folder to keep the output shorter.

If you want git status to show every file, use

git status -u

Git will not pickup .tga files

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