From: J. Bakshi <joydeep.bakshi@infoservices.in>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:22:47 GMT
Subject: Re: How to add folder NON RECURSIVELY ?
Message-ID: <201204031223.q33CMvQC004186@VM-MailSafe-02.soltecsis.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqzkatc915.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:08:38 +0200
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

> "J. Bakshi" <joydeep.bakshi@infoservices.in> writes:
> 
> > I like to add the folder structure in a way that only foo/dir1/file1 is added to
> > the git. foo/dir2 and foo/dir3 should be added to the git also to show
> > the directory
> > structure and not the contents of those folder.
> 
> Git doesn't record the existance of directories. For Git, a directory
> exists if and only if it has some files in it. So, "foo/dir2 and
> foo/dir3 should be added to the git" cannot be done in Git.
> 
> A common workaround is to create a dummy file, typically .gitignore,
> within the directories you want to add. Depending on the intended use of
> the directory, you may want this file to be empty (to tell your
> collaborators "there's nothing here for now, but there will be later"),
> or to contain '*' to mean "there will never be any tracked files in this
> directory".
> 
> IOW,
> 
> touch foo/dir2/.gitignore foo/dir3/.gitignore
> git add foo/dir2/.gitignore foo/dir3/.gitignore
> 

Thanks for your suggestion.
So .gitignore for foo/dir2/  and  foo/dir3/ should add those directories non recursively.

Could you please suggest how can I add foo/dir1/file1 ?

guess

touch foo/dir1/.gitignore
git add foo/dir1/
git add foo/dir1/file1

??