GIT ignoring files in project/bin/debug folder except few files (Visual Studio Project)

Question

This is how my .gitignore looks like:

# User-specific files
*.userprefs
!*.ini
!*.gitkeep
!*.bat

# Build results

[Bb]in/
[Dd]ebug/

What I want to achieve is to ignore all files in project/bin/debug but keep the files like *.ini *.bat and etc.

.gitignore is location in root folder:

rootfolder\project name\bin\Debug

Maybe [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5534865/3676450) can help you. — Amitay Stern, Aug 17 '16 at 07:41
@nullpointer I already did. Can't you see my .gitignore file? i used `!` — philxtian, Aug 17 '16 at 07:46
@nullpointer you think I should modify `[Bb]in/` `[Dd]ebug/` instead? — philxtian, Aug 17 '16 at 07:50

M. Twarog · Answer 1 · 2016-08-17T08:07:22.173

Use ! operator to negate pattern:

*.bat
!myfile.bat

In your case it's better to use .gitignore in specific directory. You should make .gitignore file in project/bin/debug with a content:

*.*
!*.bat

Or you can do it in your project main .gitignore:

MyFolder/*
!MyFolder/NotIgnored.txt

Without * it won't work.

Keep in mind that already staged files won't be ignored. You need to unstage them using git rm --cached <file>

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '16 at 08:07

1

This works well for me. Add wildcard to your folders, and define the exceptions at the bottom.

# Build results    
[Bb]in/*
[Dd]ebug/*

# User-specific files
*.userprefs
!*.ini
!*.gitkeep
!*.bat

answered Aug 17 '16 at 08:07

crea1

sorry but this adds all the files inside bin/debug. – philxtian Aug 17 '16 at 09:08

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '16 at 09:22

I solved this by modifying the .gitignore of my root folder to:

# User-specific files
*.userprefs
!*.ini

# Build results
![Bb]in/
[Bb]in/*
![Dd]ebug/

Then creating another .gitignore file inside rootfolder/project/bin/debug/ directory with the ff:

*
!*.ini
!*.bat

Hope this can help someone in the future.

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