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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.

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Written by Veit Schiele on 2024-12-28 at 11:45

@ovid IMHO, a better way is to create a .gitignore file with the following content in an empty directory:

[#] ignore everything except .gitignore

!.gitignore

This technique avoids several disadvantages:

• Both .gitignore and log/.gitkeep must be edited.

• When renaming the directory, it is easy to forget to change the .gitignore file as well.

• .gitkeep is a completely normal file for Git; however, the name suggests that the file would be treated specially by Git.

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