Adding folders to a git repository while ignoring some subfolders

Question

Im trying to add a directory "foo" to my repo, but there are some sub dirs lets call them "bar1", "bar2", "bar3" and "bar4" Now I want to add foo to my repo, while ignoring foo/bar2 and foo/bar3 is this possible? do i need to add them first and then remove the folders I dont want?

Accepted Answer

Use .gitignore. Create a `.gitignore` file in your repository root that lists the files and folders you want ignored

```
foo/bar2/
foo/bar3/
```

You can use `.gitignore` files in subfolders as well if you don't want to specify everything from the root level.

Adding folders to a git repository while ignoring some subfolders

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