Title: "Excluded Rules" excludes wrong files!
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# "Excluded Rules" excludes wrong files!

 *  [qarlis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qarlis/)
 * (@qarlis)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluded-rules-excludes-wrong-files/)
 * Hello,
 * when using exclude rules such as “.git/”, “.svn/”, “wp/” plugin also excludes
   these files from root directory, for example “.gitio”, “wp-config.php” and also
   it excludes files from other directories that are starting with “.git”, “.svn”
   or “wp” in this situation.
 * So exclude rule like “wp/” actually works as “wp*” which means that not only 
   directory “wp” would be excluded but also every file that is starting with “wp”.
 * Quick workaround would be to use “wp/*” to exclude every file from desired directory,
   but anyway this is not how it should work.
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excluded-rules-excludes-wrong-files/)
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