diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index a5ce3b1fbe2..6aa81a8f5c2 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
 - Black now uses the presence of debug f-strings to detect target version. (#3215)
 - Fix misdetection of project root and verbose logging of sources in cases involving
   `--stdin-filename` (#3216)
+- Immediate `.gitignore` files in source directories given on the command line are now
+  also respected, previously only `.gitignore` files in the project root and
+  automatically discovered directories were respected (#3237)
 
 ### Documentation
 
diff --git a/src/black/__init__.py b/src/black/__init__.py
index 86a0b637442..ded4a736822 100644
--- a/src/black/__init__.py
+++ b/src/black/__init__.py
@@ -653,6 +653,11 @@ def get_sources(
             if exclude is None:
                 exclude = re_compile_maybe_verbose(DEFAULT_EXCLUDES)
                 gitignore = get_gitignore(root)
+                p_gitignore = get_gitignore(p)
+                # No need to use p's gitignore if it is identical to root's gitignore
+                # (i.e. root and p point to the same directory).
+                if gitignore != p_gitignore:
+                    gitignore += p_gitignore
             else:
                 gitignore = None
             sources.update(
diff --git a/tests/test_black.py b/tests/test_black.py
index 089e043d639..abd4d00b8e8 100644
--- a/tests/test_black.py
+++ b/tests/test_black.py
@@ -1990,6 +1990,13 @@ def test_nested_gitignore(self) -> None:
         )
         assert sorted(expected) == sorted(sources)
 
+    def test_nested_gitignore_directly_in_source_directory(self) -> None:
+        # https://github.com/psf/black/issues/2598
+        path = Path(DATA_DIR / "nested_gitignore_tests")
+        src = Path(path / "root" / "child")
+        expected = [src / "a.py", src / "c.py"]
+        assert_collected_sources([src], expected)
+
     def test_invalid_gitignore(self) -> None:
         path = THIS_DIR / "data" / "invalid_gitignore_tests"
         empty_config = path / "pyproject.toml"