.gitignore exclude folder but include specific subfolder

Question

I have the folder application/ which I add to the .gitignore. Inside the application/ folder is the folder application/language

Answer 1

I have found a similar case here, where in laravel by default, .gitignore ignores all using asterix, then overrides the public directory.

*
!public
!.gitignore

This is not sufficient if you run into the OP scenario.

If you want to commit a specific subfolders of public, say for e.g. in your public/products directory you want to include files that are one subfolder deep e.g. to include public/products/a/b.jpg they wont be detected correctly, even if you add them specifically like this !/public/products, !public/products/*, etc..

The solution is to make sure you add an entry for every path level like this to override them all.

*
!.gitignore
!public/
!public/*/
!public/products/
!public/products/*
!public/products/*/
!public/products/*/
!public/products/*/*