.gitignore How to ignore only index.html in the root directory

Question

.gitignore How to ignore only the index.html in the project root directory but not the index.html in subdirectories

index.html

Do you write it like this?

Answer 1

/index.html will do.
This involves the matching problem of gitignore. If it does not start with / (slash), git will match all index.html in the directory. After adding /, it will match according to the path

Answer 2

@老老哥 is right, the questioner should do exactly what he said!

Answer 3

./index.html

Answer 4

If your gitignore is also on the root (usually it is).
You just need to add a line index.html in gitignore.