From: Olga Pshenichnikova Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:14:07 GMT Subject: Re: How to include just some subdirectory excluding all envelop tree Message-ID: <56DDEF1F.7040604@ip-5.ru> In-Reply-To: <20160307210608.GA29312@ikke.info> Thank you very much! The exclamation mark solves my problem. I can not create repository inside /a, because I need control /b also ) On 03/08/2016 12:06 AM, Kevin Daudt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:01:52PM +0300, Olga Pshenichnikova wrote: >> 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