Script to create .gitkeep files in all empty directories within an initialised Git project

create_gitkeep_files.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Recursively create .gitkeep files

# Git tracks files, and not directories. This means any empty directories in your source project will be 
# omitted whenever the source code is cloned via Git. Sometimes though you want to keep these directories
# (a typical example being when you want to a directory to hold log files or some other runtime artefacts).

# To preserve empty directories within a Git project, users typically create a hidden `.gitkeep` file and commit 
# that file to source control for each empty directory they wish to keep. Creating these by hand can be a bit of 
# a pain though.

# To save you from having to create these manually, execute the following bash snippet from within the root of 
# you initialized git project:

find . -type d -empty -not -path "./.git/*" -exec touch {}/.gitkeep \;

# The snippet will create a .gitkeep file in all empty subdirectories of your project (excluding the .git/ 
# repository database) so you don't have to.

# As you can probably work out, find starts in the current directory and looks for all directories (-type d)
# that are empty (-empty) but are not in the `.git` directory (-not -path "./.git/*") and then touches a 
# `.gitkeep` file within discovered directory (-exec touch {} /.gitkeep \;)

# Modified from: http://cavaliercoder.com/blog/recursively-create-gitkeep-files.html