gitignore - allow folder creation but ignore all files inside - can we do it with exclamation mark (!)?

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When we push a certain project somewhere, we wish to deploy empty necessary folders too. For example: /runtime/ folder.

However, we must ignore all files inside /runtime/* ;

I'm aware of "the create a useless file inside your empty directories" solution and also, aware of some sort of bash process to make that add of useless files automatic, but isn't there any other way?

I mean:

Is it possible to accomplish this by having on our .gitignore something like:

!/runtime/
/runtime/*

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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No, not currently. The standard trick relies on having a file (somedirectory/.gitignore) in the directory, since git does not stage empty directories, no matter what /.gitignore may say.

It is currently not possible to git add an empty directory.

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If you are excluding all files inside that folder, do not forget to exclude the .gitignore file itself. `!.gitignore` – gbc921 Feb 11 '14 at 14:42

gitignore - allow folder creation but ignore all files inside - can we do it with exclamation mark (!)?

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