I created a gitignore in the root of my project folder like this:

*

!src/
!.gitignore

And in my src folder, I have 2 files and a file I want to keep in the local folder but exclude from the repository (3 files in total). So I created another gitignore file in the src folder like this:

file.txt

The command line:

git add .
git commit -m "message"
git push

When I went to my repo, it indeed excluded everything but the src folder and the gitignore file, but in the src folder in the repo, I found only the gitignore file and not the other files.

CodePudding user response：

Your top-level .gitignore file has the rule:

*

This matches all files in all folders at all times. So any file anywhere is ignored, unless otherwise specified.

To fix this, use the "anchor" concept: tell Git that * in the top level should only apply at the top level, i.e.:

/*

Now only top-level files are ignored (and any folders are not searched either, unless overridden, e.g., as by your !src/ line).

(Note that the:

!.gitignore

rule in the top level file means that all .gitignore files everywhere are not-ignored, unless overridden by a more-local rule, but that's probably what you want anyway. Still, you could anchor that rule too, if you wanted.)