- An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any
matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
- included again.
+ included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent
+ directory of that file is excluded. Git doesn't list excluded
+ directories for performance reasons, so any patterns on contained
+ files have no effect, no matter where they are defined.
Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first "`!`" for patterns
that begin with a literal "`!`", for example, "`\!important!.txt`".
- It is possible to re-include a file if a parent directory of that
- file is excluded if certain conditions are met. See section NOTES
- for detail.
- If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the
purpose of the following description, but it would only find
To stop tracking a file that is currently tracked, use
'git rm --cached'.
-To re-include files or directories when their parent directory is
-excluded, the following conditions must be met:
-
- - The rules to exclude a directory and re-include a subset back must
- be in the same .gitignore file.
-
- - The directory part in the re-include rules must be literal (i.e. no
- wildcards)
-
- - The rules to exclude the parent directory must not end with a
- trailing slash.
-
- - The rules to exclude the parent directory must have at least one
- slash.
-
EXAMPLES
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