Ignore files and directories

# Ignore all txt files
*.txt

# Track "file1.txt" even if all other txt files are ignored
!file1.txt

# Ignore a file called "credentials" in the current directory
/credentials

# Ignore all files in any directory named "logs"
logs/

# ignore all txt files in the "logs" folder, but not "logs/apache/log.txt"
logs/*.txt

# ignore all ".txt" files in the "logs" directory and any of its subdirectories
logs/**/*.txt