Jeff,Thank you for taking this on. I tried your suggestion copied below. The 'needed_a' (and _b) directories appear in the archive but unfortunately they are empty. We need the contents of the directories in the archive.
On 11/20/2019 11:58 PM, Jeff King wrote:
Instead, if you write it like this: /mostly_unuseful/** export-ignore /mostly_unuseful/needed_a -export-ignore /mostly_unuseful/needed_b -export-ignore ... And given that there's already a solution using `**`, it might not be worth it.
