A gitignore file for initializing a git repository in the root file system. Because the include list is a white list of files there aren't any issues with repositories being in a sub tree. This .gitignore file is in the `/` filesystem where there is a git repository at `/.git`. The name of this repository on the central server is the domain name…

gistfile1.txt

#Track iptables
#the order of the patterns matter because we want to track a child but not any parents
#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5533050/gitignore-exclude-folder-but-include-specific-subfolder


#global types to ignore
*.swp

#include all directories and files to be ignored completely
/app
/.autofsck
/bin
/boot
/cgroup
/dev
/home
/lib
/lib64
/lost+found
/media
/mnt
/opt
/proc
/root
/sbin
/selinux
/srv
/sys
/tmp
/usr
/var

#first level directories to partially ignore
!/etc
/etc/*

#second level files/directories to partially ignore
!/etc/sysconfig
/etc/sysconfig/*
!/etc/httpd
/etc/httpd/*
!/etc/rc.d
/etc/rc.d/*

#third level files/directories to partially ignore
!/etc/sysconfig/iptables
!/etc/httpd/conf.d
!/etc/httpd/conf
!/etc/httpd/ssl.crt
!/etc/httpd/ssl.key
!/etc/rc.d/init.d
/etc/rc.d/init.d/*

#fourth level files/directories to partially ignore
!/etc/rc.d/init.d/gitlab