# How to unignore files in certain directories? 2 messages from 2012-07-25 to 2012-07-25. Participants: Peng Yu, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31098 ## Peng Yu, 2012-07-25 15:48 Subject: How to unignore files in certain directories? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CABrM6wk%2Bacut6EaoK%3D_GuQw3w9vhn_4ONoF21cj1GtEtHFWBKQ%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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! -- Regards, Peng ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2012-07-25 18:05 Subject: Re: How to unignore files in certain directories? Message-ID: <7vmx2nbtt5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vmx2nbtt5.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Peng Yu 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. ```