git - Only push files with certain extensions to GitHub

Question

I am working on a data analysis project whose directory structure looks like following

pipeline1.py
pipeline2.py
...
pipelineN.py
data/
config/
test/

where folder data/ mixes a lot of data processing Python scripts and raw data.

Now I am almost done with the data preprocessing in data/ and ready to commit changes to my personal GitHub repo. However, I am not sure how could I push only .py in this folder.

I have tried adding following to .gitignore but this will ignore the data/ entirely and hence not desirable.

!*.py

data/

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65862018/only-push-files-with-certain-extensions-to-github

Answer 1

You should use that way:

first ignore everything in that folder

data/

than except those files

!data/*.py