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Asked: 2026-05-22T18:15:40+00:00

Possible Duplicate: How to exclude file only from root folder in GIT For a

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How to exclude file only from root folder in GIT

For a specific JavaScript project, I am using the TinyWeb HTTP Server for local testing (to work around a specific security limitation that applies to file URLs). That program requires I have an index.html file in the root directory, but I do not want to commit that file to my Git repository.

How can I stop Git from bugging me about this “untracked file” on every commit? I do want to commit all index.html files located in subdirectories.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Add this to your .gitignore (in the root folder):

    /index.html

    The leading / makes git use an absolute path (relative to the current .gitignore location), whereas all other lines are just treated as some kind of wildcard.

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