create .keep files for empty directories currently ignored by git

git-keep

#!/bin/bash 
# create .keep files for empty directories currently ignored by git
# run git clean -nd to see which directories are empty and therefore ignored by git currently 
# run git keep to add these directories by adding a .keep file
# see this discussion http://stackoverflow.com/questions/115983/how-do-i-add-an-empty-directory-to-a-git-repository/21422128#21422128
git clean -nd | awk '{ print $3 }' | xargs -L1 -I{} touch {}.keep

This is exactly what I needed, rock on.