Re: How to add folder NON RECURSIVELY ?

From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Apr 3, 2012, 13:12 UTC
Message-ID: <4F7AF740.9070906@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <201204031223.q33CMvQC004186@VM-MailSafe-02.soltecsis.com>

Am 03.04.2012 14:22 schrieb J. Bakshi:

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> 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
>

Almost ;-)

Since foo/dir1 already contains file1 there's no need to add a .gitignore in dir1 (except, of course, you really want to ignore sth. in that directory).

If this is your directory structure:

foo/dir1/file1 foo/dir2 foo/dir3

foo/dir1/ is automatically added when you "git add foo/dir1/file1". To add the (empty) directories dir2 and dir3 you need some placeholder file in them because git does not track directories, only files (together with their path).

Thus:

touch foo/dir2/.gitignore touch foo/dir3/.gitignore git add foo/dir2/.gitignore git add foo/dir3/.gitignore

If you add a directory (like "git add foo/dir1/) git will add all files in that directory (recursively), again, except for empty directories.

HTH,
	Dirk