how to track one specified directory but ignore any things in it with git

Question

I have one directory named "ignore-folder" and I track it in git, but I want to ignore the files and directories in it, how should I edit the .gitignore?

Answer 1

Add a .gitignore to the directory that you want to be tracked, ignoring all files inside that dir.

Like so

# Ignore everything in this directory
*
# Except this file
!.gitignore

or if you want to be more specific, eg only csv files

*.csv

Also check ".gitignore exclude files in directory but not certain directories"

Answer 2

if you want to track the folder itself, but not the files in the folder, you should edit the .gitignore to say yourdirectoryname/*

If you want to ignore the directory as well, you can write yourdirectoryname/ in the .gitignore