Negative patterns in .gitignore make all files ignored

[julien-f]

It works with any negative patterns, the one who matches nothing !* and the one who matches anything !inexisting.

[feross]

Can you give an example of a .gitignore you're trying to use?

[matthewmueller]

Just ran into this. Probably a better way to write this but here's what I had.

!*/db
db

Ignore /db, but don't ignore say, /lib/db.

[julien-f]

@matthewmueller you can simply write /db which ignore the db entry in the directory where the .gitignore is.

@feross I can show you a trivial example but any valid gitignore should be correctly interpreted.

dist/*
!dist/.keepme

[feross]

standard@3.7.0 removed support for .gitignore until we can make it work more reliably.