How to use "!" in .gitignore as a string

Question

I have directory which starts with exclamation mark, like:

!test

I want to add it in gitignore, but this doesn't seem to work:

\!test

What is the correct way to do this?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 20 '13 at 11:52

8

You can escape it with a backslash => \!test

edited Aug 20 '13 at 11:52

answered Aug 20 '13 at 11:38

peko

@Eugene I think it is ok, have tested it on my machine (git version 1.8.3.4). Make sure that you can't ignore a file already tracked, check [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7231608/git-ignore-files-which-are-on-repository). – dyng Aug 20 '13 at 13:46
@Eugene no didn't try it, but i know you can escape special chars with a backslash – peko Aug 20 '13 at 13:56
@Eugene I tried. It works. Please, mark the answer as correct. – polkovnikov.ph Dec 27 '17 at 20:51

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