Patterns

The * character matches any number of characters except for a slash (/). For example, to ignore all .txt files, you could use the following pattern:

*.txt

This would ignore files like /princess_diaries.txt and /contacts/your_mom.txt since they're both .txt files.

Patterns starting with a / are anchored to the directory containing the .gitignore file. For example, this would ignore a main.py in the root directory, but not in any subdirectories:

/main.py

This ignores /main.py but not /src/main.py since /src is a subdirectory.

You can negate a pattern by prefixing it with an exclamation mark (!). For example, to ignore all .txt files except for important.txt, you could use the following pattern:

*.txt
!/important.txt

This would not ignore /important.txt, but would ignore /self_affirmations/important.txt.

You can add comments to your .gitignore file by starting a line with a #. For example:

# Ignore all .txt files
*.txt

Comments are especially helpful when doing something unconventional or complex, especially when collaborating.

The order of patterns in a .gitignore file determines their effect, and patterns can override each other. For example:

temp/*
!temp/instructions.md

Everything in the temp/ directory would be ignored except for instructions.md. If the order were reversed, instructions.md would be ignored.

Use this .gitignore file (located at the project root) to answer the question:

# *.js

*.txt
!names.txt

/src/main.py

content.md