On Wed, Jun 06 2018, Timothy Rice wrote: >> It does seem like something which could be noted in the git >> rm docs. Perhaps you'd care to take a stab at a patch to >> add a note to Documentation/git-rm.txt Thomas? Maybe a note >> at the end of the DISCUSSION section? > > That same documentation could mention a common workaround for when someone > does really want to keep the empty directories: > > $ touch ./path/to/empty/dir/.keep > $ git add ./path/to/empty/dir/.keep > $ git commit -m "Keep that empty directory because it is needed for <whatever>" nit: The .gitkeep convention seems to be much more common in the wild than .keep, and it's probably time we documented that somewhere, even though it's not a magic .git* file like .gitattributes et al.
