Un-excluding specific folder

Question

I want /vendor/* to be ignored except /vendor/magento/module-page-cache/.

Based on this question: .gitignore exclude folder but include specific subfolder

I came up with following gitignore

/vendor/*
!/vendor/magento/
/vendor/magento/*
!/vendor/magento/module-page-cache/

When I do git status it is only tracking /vendor/magento/ but nothing inside it.

Where did I go wrong?

Try `git status -uall`. (Git doesn't track, or have as untracked, directories; `git status` just *summarizes* by default.) — torek, Aug 09 '17 at 23:39

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 10 '17 at 00:07

git status command allow 3 modes, the default one does not show files within non tracked directories.

From git-status doc:

-u[<mode>]

--untracked-files[=<mode>]

Show untracked files.

The mode parameter is used to specify the handling of untracked files. It is optional: it defaults to all, and if specified, it must be stuck to the option (e.g. -uno, but not -u no).

The possible options are:

no - Show no untracked files.

normal - Shows untracked files and directories.

all - Also shows individual files in untracked directories.

By default git status is in normal mode.

You can use git status --untracked-files=all or git status -uall.

Un-excluding specific folder

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