git ignore all files of a certain type except those in a specific subfolder

Question

I have a directory structure like this    root  folder1  abc json def json somedir  more json   folder2  qwe json rty json  spec  mock1 json mock2 json somedir  more mocks json      Now using a  gitignore I want to ignore all   json files except for the ones in the spec   I don t want to use a  gitignore in folder1 and folder2 because there are a ton of these and they will get added to a lot  and i m sure I will forget to move the right  gitignore file in place   In addition there may be more nested directories with json files  and this rule needs to apply to all subdirectories as well   So how do I ignore all files of a type  except for a certain subdirectory

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An optional prefix   which negates the   pattern  any matching file excluded by   a previous pattern will become   included again  If a negated pattern   matches  this will override lower   precedence patterns sources    http   schacon github com git gitignore html    json  spec   json

[git] git ignore all files of a certain type, except those in a specific subfolder

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