.gitignore ignore all files then recursively allow *.foo

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Your problem is that the /* pattern at the beginning is matching all files and directories at the top level – including testdir, so everything inside testdir is ignored.

This is what you want:

# Ignore everything
*
# Don't ignore directories, so we can recurse into them
!*/
# Don't ignore .gitignore and *.foo files
!.gitignore
!*.foo

When you do a git add . with this config, you should find you have only .gitignore and *.foo files listed as changes to be committed.

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