How to track only .cpp and .h files in a project using Git

Question

Here is the folders:

--dir  
----subdir1  
------a.h  
------a.cpp  
----subdir2  
------b.h  
------b.cpp  
----.gitignore

Please tell me how to track all but only .h, .cpp, .xmlfiles in dir and all its subdirectories. Here is my .gitignore file:

*
!.gitignore
!*.cpp
!*.xml
!*.h
!*.c

Does this answer your question? [Make .gitignore ignore everything except a few files](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/987142/make-gitignore-ignore-everything-except-a-few-files). You are on the right track, but I can't understand where your .gitignore file is from your chart. If it is on the root level, you should be ok. In any case, you should find an answer in the duplicate question. — Daemon Painter, Dec 12 '20 at 09:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '20 at 09:25

The .gitignore file you shared will not not ignore .cpp, .h, .c or .xml files in the project's root directory. From the problem statement, it seems like you want to track these files recursively in subdirectories, which you can do using the ** operator:

*
!.gitignore
!**/*.cpp
!**/*.xml
!**/*.h
!**/*.c

How to track only .cpp and .h files in a project using Git

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