Git ignore a folder except a given file outside the folder-CodePudding

I had the following simple .gitignore file.

#  Local .terraform directories. Here .terraform is a folder
**/.terraform/*

# .tfstate files
*.tfstate
*.tfstate.*

# .tfvars files
*.tfvars

# .tfplan files
*.tfplan

# .pem files
*.pem

# .hcl files from Terraform v0.14 and newer
*.hcl

# working directory for web app
/globo_web_app/*

**/next-step.txt

Note that this makes git to ignore .terraform.lock.hcl file as well.

Also note that .terraform.lock.hcl is not inside of .terraform folder. See the shot below.

But Now I learnt that this .terraform.lock.hcl file

I tried adding !.terraform.lock.hcl as shown be in the above screen shot. But it does not seem to work. Any ideas?

CodePudding user response：

Notice you still have this line in your .gitignore:

*.hcl

which, as you know, ignores all .hcl files. If you've added the !.terraform.lock.hcl before that line, it will not work. You need to change it to:

*.hcl
!.terraform.lock.hcl