How to unignore specific directory in gitignore

[fleet temple]

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[fleet temple]

I tried !directoryname and !directoryname/ neither worked

(the directory i want to ignore is in the root directory btw)

# Compiled class file
*.class
*.html
#.gif
#.png
*.dat

.gradle
**/build/
!src/**/build/

# Ignore Gradle GUI config
gradle-app.setting

# Avoid ignoring Gradle wrapper jar file (.jar files are usually ignored)
!gradle-wrapper.jar
!libs

# Avoid ignore Gradle wrappper properties
!gradle-wrapper.properties

# Cache of project
.gradletasknamecache

# Eclipse Gradle plugin generated files
# Eclipse Core
.project
# JDT-specific (Eclipse Java Development Tools)
.classpath

# Log file
*.log

# BlueJ files
*.ctxt

# Mobile Tools for Java (J2ME)
.mtj.tmp/

# Package Files #
*.jar
*.war
*.nar
*.ear
*.zip
*.tar.gz
*.rar

# virtual machine crash logs, see http://www.java.com/en/download/help/error_hotspot.xml
hs_err_pid*
replay_pid*

#idea
*.idea/
**/editor/datadump/

i want to ignore the libs folder

[hollow mural]

then just add it to the list?

whats the hard part here?

[fleet temple]

u can clearly see that i have it added already

anyway i figured it out

just unignoring the directory isn't enough

[hollow mural]

u have a ! at the start

[fleet temple]

i also had to unignore .jar for that specific directory

[fleet temple]

yes which is what i want

! means negate in gitignore

[hollow mural]

u want to ignore or not u changed ur statement 3 times already

@fleet temple !libs/*

[fleet temple]

what?

read the title

'how to unignore'

[hollow mural]

@fleet temple yes and then here u say "ignore"

[fleet temple]

okay yeah i messed that one up

that's once not 3 times tho

[hollow mural]

unignore -> ignore -> unignore

i count it as 3

anyways

[fleet temple]

alright apparently this isn't the right syntax

!/libs/*.jar

[hollow mural]

u have other than .jar stuff in libs folder?

[fleet temple]

nop

[hollow mural]

if not this is what u want

[fleet temple]

that won't work cause i have ignored .jar globally

and i need to unignore it only for this specific dir

[hollow mural]

ohw

ok

[fleet temple]

ok ye

i see why this didn't work

!/libs/*.jar

because order matters in gitignore

my exclusion for all .jar files was below that statement

works fine now

https://i.imgur.com/eXEmp3P.png

[hollow mural]

ok what about without .jar at the end now?

what about without the * as well?

i want to know

[fleet temple]

sec

doesn't seem to make a diff

altho i might need to clear the cache

but this is the way i want it to be

u can test it urself easily tho

ty for help