In my .gitignore I have the line:
/storage/*.key
But I don't want to ignore this specific path and all it's content:
/storage/app/public/*
Now, inside that path there's another .gitinore file and it has:
*
!.gitignore
And in the same path there's another .gitignore with:
*
!public/
!.gitignore
I thought that would be for add the path but is not working.
What is that? How can do what I want (add the path of storage/app/public*)?
Simply check which exact .gitignore and which exact rule is ignoring public:
cd /path/to/my/repo
# from the root folder of the repo:
git check-ignore -v /storage/app/public/aFileWithinPublic
You need to test a file, since a folder is not tracked by Git.
The rule is simple:
It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded.
So if the folder public is ignored (by a '*' rule in a parent .gitignore) of if any of the parent folder of public is ignored, no amount of exclusion will be able to make public content not-ignored.
So this is good (from the .gitignore in storage/app/, parent of public/ folder):
*
!public/
But if storage/app/ or storage/ are ignored themselves, this exclusion would be ignored as well.
That is why git check-ignore -v /storage/app/public/aFileWithinPublic is important: it will explain what causes the folder content to still be ignored.
