如何在gitignore中选择除特定名称以外的相同格式的多个文件

Question

I have multiple .txt files to include in gitignore. Also, I need a few of the .txt files to be commited.

Presently, I'm doing:
1) *.txt in .gitignore
2) Followed by git add -f fill_2_add.txt

Is there a way to avoid forcefully including the required .txt files? I tried using '!fill_2_add!.txt' as given in documentation but to no avail

Answer 1

The rules in .gitignore are applied in order and can be negated by starting the line with ! . For your use-case this means you have to first ignore all *.txt files and then list all individual *.txt files you want to include, ie with this .gitignore:

*.txt
!fill_2_add.txt