git ignore specific directories

Question

I wanted to recently upload my dotnetnuke website on git, now my website has gigs of images which i don't want to upload over git.

I was searching on GIT and came across .gitignore file which gets created during repository creation, GIT has a documentation about ignorning files/folders and it's specific sub-folder, however it does not seems to work in my case.

Here's my folder structure:

*******Updated*******

.gitignore
public_html/Portals/_default/
public_html/Portals/0/
public_html/Portals/1/
public_html/Portals/110/

Now i want to ignore all folders under Portals except Portals/_default. I tried based on the specification from GIT:

Example to exclude everything except a specific directory foo/bar (note the /* - without the slash, the wildcard would also exclude everything within foo/bar):

    $ cat .gitignore
    # exclude everything except directory foo/bar
    /*
    !/foo
    /foo/*
    !/foo/bar

Below is what i tried:

!/Portals
/Portals/*
!/Portals/_default

But this does not seems to work at all.

Can anyone get me in right direction.

Remove the first line, and remove the leading slashes (assuming the .gitignore file is adjacent to the Portals folder) — Plato, Aug 27 '15 at 19:41
@Plato: this does not works either, however i have updated my question to show full directory structure from root. — Abbas, Aug 27 '15 at 20:06
Your problem seems to be the `public_html` folder. Move your gitignore into `public_html` or add the `public_html` folder to every line. — Johannes Thorn, Aug 27 '15 at 20:30

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 27 '15 at 19:43

From the git documentation for gitignore:

Example to exclude everything except a specific directory foo/bar (note the /* - without the slash, the wildcard would also exclude everything within foo/bar):

$ cat .gitignore
# exclude everything except directory foo/bar
/*
!/foo
/foo/*

Tada!

git ignore specific directories

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