From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:05:10 GMT
Subject: Re: How to unignore files in certain directories?
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Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have the following in .gitignore to ignore *.txt files.
>
> *.txt
>
> But I want to keep the *.txt files in, for example, data/ and all its
> subdirectories. I don't know should the the correct way to unignore
> these *.txt files. Could anybody show me the command that I should add
> to .gitignore? Thanks!

Have you checked "git help gitignore" and looked at its example
section?  I think the second example is exactly the same as what you
described above.