Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Max Power wrote:
>>
>> So I understand how to use the .gitignore file to ignore specific
>> files/directories that I put in there... is there a way to ignore everything
>> BUT a given file extension?
>
> Something like
>
> *
> !*.jpg
>
> to only save the jpegs in your pr0n collection?
Hmm, do people still keep p0rn collection in jpgs? I somehow had an
impression that they moved to avis ;-)
> The first rule says "ignore everything". The second one says "don't
> ignore *.jpg files".
>
> Untested.
t3001-ls-files-others-exclude.sh has some tests but there is nothing that
explicitly tests overlapping patterns. Perhaps it should (hint, hint...)
"man gitignore" documentation has an example to ignore all *.html files
but not foo.html using a similar construct, i.e.
*.html
!foo.html
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