From: mdconf@seznam.cz
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:36:51 GMT
Subject: Git ignore help
Message-ID: <47F.3lxhK.7IviRa5Gutr.1L2}X3@seznam.cz>

Hello,
I am trying to setup my git ignore (resp. .git/info/exclude) so that I exclude
 all directories and files except the content of directories that I 
specifically include (incl. anything within them recursively).

I set the .git/info/exclude with the following content:

========
# Exclude everything
/*
# Except the below that we include
!/db/data/load/base/bootstraponly
!/db/data/load/base/safetoload
!/db/ddl
!/labels
!/reports/usrint
!/scripts
!/src/cmdsrc/usrint
========

However it does not do what I anticipated. It indeed excludes everything but 
the include part does not work - it only works for !/labels and !/scripts 
directories (i.e. the first level directories). All other are still ignored - 
so when I create file /db/data/load/base/bootstraponly/somefile.txt git still 
ignores it...

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

I tried all of the following combinations but still with the same result:
!/db/data/load/base/bootstraponly
!/db/data/load/base/bootstraponly/
!/db/data/load/base/bootstraponly/*
!/db/data/load/base/bootstraponly/**

When I add just "!/db" to exclude then it works. But that's not what I want - 
I really want to include just the /db/data/load/base/bootstraponly and its
all content...

Thank you,
Martin