Dynamically create empty folder in GIT

Question

I have PHP web hosting with ORCHESTRA.IO. They get PHP hosting code through GIT.

I want to provide subdomains to each user, upon successful signup to website. I want to generate these user's sub domains through PHP code. The question is that whether I can create empty folder in GIT for mapping subdomains on this folder.

Is there any other better solution for dynamically generating subdomains for users.

Thanks

See also here. Funny thing is that I got -1 for exactly the same answer as there is the accepted one. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/115983/how-do-i-add-an-empty-directory-to-a-git-repository — jasir, Jan 01 '13 at 10:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '12 at 05:46

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Git stores files, not folders. The best way to get Git to track a folder is by creating a dummy file in it.

answered May 24 '12 at 05:46

robrich

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '12 at 10:27

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The best is probably to create a folder and put .gitignore in the directory.

Content of .gitignore:

*
!.gitignore

answered May 24 '12 at 10:27

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I'd rather put an empty `.keep` file in there. – ThiefMaster May 24 '12 at 10:30
In case that you want to create ie. `temp` directory, and you do not want to see generated content in future as changes when `git status`), .gitignore is much better approach. – jasir May 24 '12 at 10:31
In that case yes. But we cannot know that. – ThiefMaster May 24 '12 at 10:52
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/115983/how-do-i-add-an-empty-directory-to-a-git-repository – robrich Jan 05 '13 at 19:03

Dynamically create empty folder in GIT

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