Often you have a directory in a git repo that you want to share amongst developers, but you don't want the contents tracked. As git ignores empty directories, if you just .gitignore the directory completely it will never get added to the repo and shared. The example shows how to use this technique for the cache folder in an expressionengine inst…

Keep Directories

From the command line

  $ touch your/path/to/expressionengine/cache/.gitkeep



In your .gitignore file

  your/path/to/expressionengine/cache/*
  !your/path/to/expressionengine/cache/.gitkeep

Nice. I think with !.gitkeep you don’t have to add .gitkeep for every ignored directory.

I usually drop a .gitignore into that specific folder. I'll have to give this a try.

Excellent simple solution!

This is great, thanks for sharing!