Taylor Blau <m...@ttaylorr.com> 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".

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