Sometimes you want to add a folder to your .gitignore-file while keeping a sub-folder of said folder in version control. To ignore a folder but keep a specific subfolder in git, you can add a pair of rules to your .gitignore file to ignore the parent folder and then add an exception rule that includes the desired subfolder.
Assuming your folder structure is as follows:
my_folder/
├── subfolder1/
│ ├── file1.txt
│ └── file2.txt
├── subfolder2/
│ ├── file3.txt
│ └── file4.txt
└── file5.txt
To ignore my_folder but include subfolder1, you would add the following lines to your .gitignore file:
my_folder/
!my_folder/subfolder1/
This will ignore my_folder and all of its contents, except for subfolder1 and its contents, which will be included in git version control.
Please note that the order of these rules is important. The ignore rule for my_folder must come before the exception rule for subfolder1, or it will be ignored.
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