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From: Olga Pshenichnikova <olga@ip-5.ru>
Subject: How to include just some subdirectory excluding all envelop tree
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:01:52 +0300
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I have some tree structure:

/a
/a/a
/a/b
..
/a/z
/b
.. (thousands of folders)
/z

How can I control just /a/a folder?
What exclude file should be?

The way we use now is:

/a/*
/b/
.. (thousands of folders)
/z/
!/a/a

But it is very not nice looking and hard for maintenance...