How to add the contents of a folder to .gitignore without adding the folder itself?

Question

git

There is a folder in which the files generated by the application are stored, it is necessary that these files are not displayed in the repository, and the folder itself, even if there are no files yet, was visible in the repository, how can this be done?

Answer 1

You can use an empty .gitkeep file, in which case your .gitignore will look something like this:

/path/to/folder/*
!/path/to/folder/.gitkeep

Answer 2

Put .gitignore in this folder.