I was not able to fully master the directory specification in .gitignore but I do not have to. Sometimes, it’s enough to have a .gitignore file that says: “please ignore everything expect this .gitignore file”.
Change directory to the folder where you want to ignore, and then:
touch .gitignore
Press Shift + Command + ., then you’ll be able to see .gitignore file. Open it, and write the following to it:
# ignore everything in the current dir
*
# except this file
!.gitignore
Last modified on 2022-12-12