In a git repo, I want to exclude a file named main but not a file named main.c. How would I do this?

I have a git repository that is ignoring image files as well as a few other files, but my .gitignore file only has it ignoring a config.php file. Is there some global ignore file somewhere that I can’t seem to find? I have to specify files to add them now, and it’s giving me this warning:

According to the gitignore documentation, an asterisk * matches anything except a slash. It’s not clear to me how that actually works in practice.

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I have a .gitinore wich ignore all .docx files. I want to add an exception BUT I just done multiples commits with modification to my .gitignore file and I still can’t see my docx…

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).

In .gitignore what’s the difference between

I wanna have a general .gitignore, which will contain dirnames and filenames of any level of a project, but put it into a subfolder. For example, I wanna ignore folder “c”, project structure:

I am using IntelliJ IDEA but when I want commit it shows all class file. Here is the image;