How to exclude file only from root folder in Git

Question

I am aware of using  gitignore file to exclude some files being added  but I have several config php files in source tree and I need to exclude only one  located in the root while other keep under revision control    What I should write into  gitignore to make this happen

User · Accepted Answer

From the documentation   If the pattern does not contain a slash    git treats it as a shell glob pattern and checks for a match against the pathname relative to the location of the  gitignore file  relative to the toplevel of the work tree if not from a  gitignore file   A leading slash matches the beginning of the pathname  For example   quot    c quot  matches  quot cat-file c quot  but not  quot mozilla-sha1 sha1 c quot    So you should add the following line to your root  gitignore   config php

User · Answer

Use  config php

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Older versions of git require you first define an ignore pattern and immediately  on the next line  define the exclusion   tested on version 1 9 3  Apple Git-50     config php     config php   Later versions only require the following  tested on version 2 2 1    config php

User · Answer

If the above solution does not work for you  try this    1 1 Do NOT ignore file pattern in  any subdirectory    config php  1 2    only ignore it in the current directory  config php                                2 1 Ignore file pattern everywhere config php   2 2    but NOT in the current directory   config php

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