git-do-not-ignore

A web app to generate .gitignore rules to not to ignore a file

What?

Normally .gitignore files are used to ignore files from git indexing. Sometimes we have to ignore all files except one or more files, and writing rule for it is little bit hard.

For example, if we want to skip all files in a git project, but not a.txt which is located in aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir. Then, our .gitignore will be something like this

# Skip all files
*

# But not `aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/a.txt`
!aDir/
aDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/
aDir/anotherDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/
aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/
aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/
aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/
aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/a.txt

The above given .gitignore file will skip all dirs and files except !aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/a.txt

Web

Goto https://theapache64.github.io/git-do-not-ignore/ and simply paste your file path on the first input box

CLI

Usage

Download git-do-not-ignore.jar , then execute below command

java -jar /path/to/git-do-not-ignore.jar "/path/of/the/file"

Example

java -jar git-do-not-ignore.jar "aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/a.txt"

Output

!aDir/
aDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/
aDir/anotherDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/
aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/
aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/
aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/
aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/*
!aDir/anotherDir/someOtherDir/aDir/bDir/cDir/a.txt

Author

theapache64

theapache64 / git-do-not-ignore