Question

I’m trying to ignore the bin folder of a web project, but include the .refresh files that are in that bin folder.

Here’s what I have in my .gitignore:

[Bb]in/
#Allow .refresh files for web sites
![Bb]in/*.refresh

But this isn’t working. What am I doing wrong? I’ve also tried:

!*.refresh

With the same results.

Update:

Here’s the file structure if that helps diagnose this:

\rootfolder
    .gitignore
    \project1
         \bin
              file1.dll
              file1.dll.refresh

You can see where our gitignore file is located. We don’t want the .dll but we do want the .refresh file.

Answer 1

Try doing below:

[Bb]in/*
![Bb]in/*.refresh

this is because when you just do bin or bin/ it will not descend into the folder at all to look for file. You will have to explicitly say, go to folder, but ignore everything and then say dont ignore *.refresh.

Edit for OP’s structure:

Then you will have to either

1) Include project1 in the path in your .gitignore:

project1/bin/*
project1/bin/*.refresh

or

2) Add a .gitignore inside project1 ( I recommend this) with the previous content.