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Written by Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) on 2024-12-28 at 09:07

Sometimes you want to just have an empty directory in git, but not commit any files in it.

touch data/.gitkeep

And add this to your .gitignore:

data/*

!data/.gitkeep

Then commit. Now you have an "empty" directory.

[#]git #programming

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Written by Mohit Sindhwani on 2024-12-28 at 09:11

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Ya, I think Rails creates directories with a .keep in them for exactly this reason

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