git ignore file but not folder with the same name

Question

My code structure is:

.gitignore
my-service << this is a file without an extention
charts
| my-service << this is a folder
| | file1
| | file2

When I write in my gitignore my-service it ignores both my-service the file and my-service the folder. How can I ignore only the file in the root directory, and not the sub-directory?

Perhaps this might be useful : https://www.2brightsparks.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10067 — Rann Lifshitz, Mar 22 '18 at 04:54
Possible duplicate of [How to exclude file only from root folder in Git](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3637660/how-to-exclude-file-only-from-root-folder-in-git) — max630, Mar 22 '18 at 08:43

score 33 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '18 at 04:56

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you can do the reverse way with! in .gitignore

myservice
!myservice/

answered Mar 22 '18 at 04:56

Yu Jiaao

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