From: Brett Trotter <btrotter1389@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:01:43 GMT
Subject: Feature Request: existence-only tracking
Message-ID: <CADo3Y7QDuDLScdzcsS60d0fwQBT+=Va1s+v3OsSw5CBcEDbUFw@mail.gmail.com>

In my work, we have a lot of autogenerated files that need to exist so
a script will replace their contents, but tracking the contents
creates a lot of unnecessary conflicts. I would love to see an option
for a different tracking method that just makes sure a file or
directory exists. This would also obviate the need for adding things
like .empty files in a directory to force the directory to exist.