Ignore all folders but one

Question

I read many posts from StackOverflow about this, but I can't get it working in my case.

I would like to ignore all directories except for one. I added something like this to my .gitignore:

app/design/frontend/base/default/template/
!app/design/frontend/base/default/template/mymodule/

but it looks like the negation doesn't work at all.

There are many subfolders under the path app/design/frontend/base/default/template/, and within the app/design/frontend/base/default/template/mymodule folder there are some files if it makes any difference.

Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

Answer 1

Put the whitelist item on top of the ignore item:

!app/design/frontend/base/default/template/mymodule/
app/design/frontend/base/default/template/

If that still doesn't work, you may have to include the template directory itself, but ignore all files beneath it except mymodule:

app/design/frontend/base/default/template/*
!app/design/frontend/base/default/template/mymodule/

For more information, see the gitignore man page.