.gitignore - Ignore all files in target folder except 1 JAR file

Question

I have a maven project:

...
target/
|__ my-application-1.0.0-standalone.jar

I would like to ignore everything in the target folder except for the JAR file that matches the pattern:

my-application-<version>-standalone.jar

I need to include a specific pattern as above.

I need a specific pattern to the jar. See above edit. Thanks. — k_rollo, Oct 25 '19 at 07:22

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '19 at 08:04

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This should work.

#Ignore everything in target folder
/target/*

#Don't ignore jar
!/target/my-application-*-standalone.jar

answered Oct 25 '19 at 08:04

Tejas Anil Shah

Adding the line !/path/to/my.jar AFTER the *.jar entry in .gitignore made it work for me. It does not work if the line !/path/to/my.jar appears before the *.jar line in the .gitignore file. Order is important in the .gitignore file. Burnt my hands today. – RuntimeException Oct 06 '22 at 14:54

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