I’m trying to get a .gitignore working in wordpress. I want to exclude the uploads files and the temporary plugin upgrade files, but not ignore the .htaccess and index.html static files in those directories (or any other sub directories).

I tried:

# Uploads
/wp-content/uploads/*

# temp backup
/wp-content/upgrade-temp-backup/

# include any htaccess files or static indexes
!**/.htaccess
!**/index.html`

but it is still saying the .htaccess and index files under wp-content are ignored when I try to ‘add’ them to git.

Can anyone help me out with whatever I’m missing here?

I also tried exclusions directly to the files effected and got the same result. e.g.

!/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/.htaccess
!/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/index.html
!/wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/.htaccess
!/wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/index.html`