"J. Bakshi" <joydeep.bakshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I like to add the folder structure in a way that only foo/dir1/file1 is added to > the git. foo/dir2 and foo/dir3 should be added to the git also to show > the directory > structure and not the contents of those folder. Git doesn't record the existance of directories. For Git, a directory exists if and only if it has some files in it. So, "foo/dir2 and foo/dir3 should be added to the git" cannot be done in Git. A common workaround is to create a dummy file, typically .gitignore, within the directories you want to add. Depending on the intended use of the directory, you may want this file to be empty (to tell your collaborators "there's nothing here for now, but there will be later"), or to contain '*' to mean "there will never be any tracked files in this directory". IOW, touch foo/dir2/.gitignore foo/dir3/.gitignore git add foo/dir2/.gitignore foo/dir3/.gitignore -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html