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There are some files we want ignored, not tracked, by git, and we are having trouble figuring out how to do that.
We have some third-party C library which is unpacked and we have it in Git. But when you configure && make it, it produces many new files. How to write .gitignore to track source files and not the new stuff. (it’s not like forbidding *.o)
Edit: There are at least 12 file-types. So we would like NOT to enumerate, which type we want and which not.
Use
!to include all the types of files you need. Something like in the following example”