Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If you wish to keep this directory "empty", but stored in Git, a common > convention is to create an empty '.gitkeep' file in the directory. This > file is not special in any way to Git, rather it serves as _a_ file to > keep the directory non-empty. Hmph, I thought the common convention was to create a ".gitignore" file in the directory with catch-all pattern, so that no matter what cruft you had there "git add" will not add anything from it, if you wish to keep this directory "empty".
