Tell git to ignore any repos in my main repo

Question

I am moving my php composer dependencies into a prebuilt repo, but for some reason some files are not being tracked when I push to the repo. To counteract this I am telling my repo to ignore any repos (dependencies) that are put into the parent folder via composer update.

How can I tell my main repo to ignore any repos that happen to be pulled in as folders.

I am currently using this in my .gitignore

#ignore all folders called .git
.git/

# Unignore the parent .git folder
!/.git/

I do not want any submodules. Only one repo with all the code versioned.

Answer 1

Any nested repo would be ignored anyway, so you wouldn't have to add those gitignore rule.

If you need to "version" those nested repos, declare them as submodules , in order to record a SHA1 reference of said nested subrepo in the parent repo.
Then they can be populated with a:

git submodule update --init

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If you want only one repo, then you would need to merge those sub-repos into the main one, before pushing everything.
See for instance: " How do you merge two git repositories? " (in particular this answer ).