CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

Git reads .gitignore rules from top to bottom.

• *.log ignores every file whose name ends in .log, but !debug.log re-includes the top-level file of that exact name, so debug.log will be shown by git status if untracked.

• /config/*.yaml ignores YAML files directly inside the config directory; the later negation !/config/production.yaml re-includes production.yaml. Because the config directory itself is not ignored, the override works and config/production.yaml is tracked.

• docs/ tells Git to ignore the entire docs directory. When a directory is ignored, Git stops scanning its contents, so a later rule cannot re-include items inside it. Therefore !/docs/README.md has no effect and docs/README.md remains ignored.

• scripts/run.sh is not matched by any pattern and will be tracked normally.

Consequently, docs/README.md is the only file that will not appear in git status.