Is there a way to tell git to only include certain files instead of ignoring certain files?

Question

My programs generally generate huge output files (~1 GB) which I do not want to be backing up to the git repository. So instead of being able to do

git add          


        

Answer 1

Late to the party, but my solution would be to have a directory for source files and a different directory for executables and program output, something like this:

+ .git
|    (...)
+ bin
|    my_exe.exe
|    my_output.txt
+ src
     some_file.c
     some_file.h 

... and then only add the stuff in src/ to my repository and ignore bin/ entirely.