how to make svn or git only monitor a list of files, but ignores anything else

Question

for example there are lots of files in one directory, but i only want to monitor Makefile and rules.mk ... , what i should input to .gitignore or .svnignore?

ls
bin        Config.in  docs                include  **Makefile**  Packages     README.SDK  scripts      target
build_dir  dl         feeds.conf.default  LICENSE  package   Packages.gz  **rules.mk**    staging_dir  tmp

Answer 1

The rules for a .gitignore file would ignore everything and then exclude Makefile and rules.mk

>>.gitignore cat
*
!Makefile
!rules.mk

Note that you could just ignore everything after you have added Makefile and rules.mk and you wouldn't notice a difference.