Git - What are the differences between .gitignore and .gitkeep

Questions

What are the differences between .gitignore and .gitkeep? Are they the same thing with a different name, or do they both serve a different function? I don t seem to be able to find much documentation on .gitkeep.

Answers

".gitkeep" isn’t documented, because it’s not a feature of Git.

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Git_FAQ#Can_I_add_empty_directories.3F https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Git_FAQ#Can_I_add_empty_directories.3F

There is a competing convention of adding a “.gitignore” file to the empty directories to get them tracked, but some people see this as confusing since the goal is to keep the empty directories, not ignore them; “.gitignore” is also used to list files that should be ignored by Git when looking for untracked files.

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