How can I ignore everything except two directories (nested)?

Question

Here is my root which git is installed there:

htdocs/
    .git
    xampp
    test
    myweb
    myweb_dependencies
    onOtherProject
    php_info.php
    .gitignore

Also here is the content of .gitignore :

# Ignore everything
*

# But not these files
!myweb
!myweb_dependencies

What I want to do is ignoring everything except these two directories: myweb and myweb_dependencies .

The problem is: apparently the content of .gitignore is wrong, because it doesn't track changes into myweb directory. How can I fix it?

Answer 1

It should be like this:

# Ignore everything
/*
/*/

# But not these files
!/myweb/
!/myweb_dependencies/