.gitkeep - Push your entire folder structure to GitHub, including empty folders

gitkeep.md

.gitkeep

A .gitkeep file tells github to do the opposite of its default behaviour, which is to ignore empty folders.

If you want to track an empty folder, or a folder with untracked files, create a 0kb file with the .gitkeep file extension in that folder.

touch FOLDER_NAME/.gitkeep

To push your project's folder structure to Github:

To create a .gitkeep file in each of your folder subdirectories, run this bash script from the root of your source project:

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

Here is the PowerShell equivalent:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Directory | ForEach-Object {New-Item -ItemType file -Path "$($_.FullName)" -Name ".gitkeep" }

To check-in a directory but not the files:

If you want to ignore everything inside the directory, but at the same time want to check-in the folder, add the following lines in your .gitignore:

# ignore files in folder
FOLDER_NAME/*

# ...but keep the folder
!FOLDER_NAME/.gitkeep