#gitkeep

[serialcoder]

keep an empty directory on git

sometimes, for whatever reason, you need to keep an empty directory on git to be visible to everyone who's working on the same project.

if you only create the directory, it won't be recognized on git status.

to track the empty directory, touch a file called .gitkeep into the following directory.

once it's done, it starts showing up on git status.

[domon-web]

.gitkeep

Sometimes in some repositories, there is a `.gitkeep` file under empty directories. I used to think it is a special file like `.gitignore`. But no, it's just a convention to put such a file in empty directories, forcing git to track them. ## Reference * [git - .gitignore vs .gitkeep - Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7229885/gitignore-vs-gitkeep)

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