I have a bin folder located in my root directory which gets created upon building my c application. I have another bin folder located within the ‘dep’ (dependencies) folder. So:
root dir
|- bin
|- dep
|- bin
Right now I have ‘bin/’ in my .gitignore file and that seems to be ignoring all bin folders in my project. How do I setup the .gitignore file to only ignore the bin folder with the root directory and not ignore the one within my dep folder?
>Solution :
To ignore only the bin folder in the root directory and not the one in the dep folder, you can modify your .gitignore file to ignore only the bin folder in the root directory by adding the following line:
/bin/
This will ignore only the bin folder in the root directory and not the one in the dep folder. Note the trailing slash after bin/ which ensures that only the bin directory is ignored and not files with bin in their name.
So, your .gitignore file will look something like this:
# Ignore the bin directory in the root directory
/bin/
# Other ignores
...