I understand that a .gitignore file cloaks specified files from Git's version control.
How do I tell .gitignore to ignore everything except the files I'm tracking with Git? Something like:
# Ignore everything:
*
# Do not ignore these files:
script.pl
template.latex
An optional prefix
!which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will override lower precedence patterns sources.
# Ignore everything
*
# But not these files...
!.gitignore
!script.pl
!template.latex
# etc...
# ...even if they are in subdirectories
!*/