.gitignore for Joomla component

Question

I am developing Joomla! component named com_proposta strong>.

I use git for version control. I want git to ignore all Joomla files except the files in administrator/components/com_propostaand components/com_proposta.

Answer 1

There is a gitignore file on git that you can use (and contribute to) it.

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Joomla.gitignore

Answer 2

You can use the operator !to ignore ignoring in .gitignore. In your case:

* 
!administrator/components/com_proposta
!components/com_proposta

Answer 3

. , .

administrator/cache/*
administrator/components/*
administrator/help/*
administrator/includes/*
administrator/language/*
administrator/logs/*
administrator/manifests/*
administrator/modules/*
administrator/templates/*
!administrator/components/com_compname

bin/*
cache/*
cli/*
components/*
images/*
includes/*
language/*
layouts/*
libraries/*
media/*
modules/*
plugins/*
templates/*
tmp/*

!components/com_compname

configuration.php
htaccess.txt
index.php
LICENSE.txt
README.txt
robots.txt
web.config.txt