Re: How to include just some subdirectory excluding all envelop tree

From: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Date: Mar 7, 2016, 21:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20160307210608.GA29312@ikke.info>
In-Reply-To: <56DDD020.2050101@ip-5.ru>

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:01:52PM +0300, Olga Pshenichnikova wrote:

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> I have some tree structure:
> 
> /a
> /a/a
> /a/b
> ..
> /a/z
> /b
> .. (thousands of folders)
> /z
> 
> How can I control just /a/a folder?
> What exclude file should be?
> 
> The way we use now is:
> 
> /a/*
> /b/
> .. (thousands of folders)
> /z/
> !/a/a
> 
> But it is very not nice looking and hard for maintenance...

Don't know your usecase, but isn't it easier to just create the repository in /a/a? Then you won't have to exlude anything.

If you must, you can just use something like:

 *
 !/a
 /a/*
 !/a/a