How to gitignore everything except hidden subdir?

Question

I'm using this .gitignore file for excluding everything in the current dir and subdirs, except the ! prefixed entries:

*
!.profile
!.vim/snippets
!.vimrc

The .profile and .vimrc files are showing up as untracked in git status but not the .vim/snippets directory. Any idea how to include this directory as well? I've tried !.vim/snippets/ but it doesn't work either. Thanks

Answer 1

I found a solution that works OK. One can explicitly say what dirs and files that should be included along the path:

*
!.vim
!.vim/snippets
!.vim/snippets/*
!.profile
!.vimrc

So this would include the .vim dir and the snippets directory but only the files ( /* ) in the snippets dir.