How can I add an empty directory to a Git repository?

Question

How can I add an empty directory (that contains no files) to a Git repository?

Answer 1

You can save this code as create_readme.php and run the PHP code from the root directory of your Git project.

> php create_readme.php

It will add README files to all directories that are empty so those directories would be then added to the index.

 $object){
        if ( is_dir($name) && ! is_empty_folder($name) ){
            echo "$name\n" ;
            exec("touch ".$name."/"."README");
        }
    }

    function is_empty_folder($folder) {
        $files = opendir($folder);
        while ($file = readdir($files)) {
            if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')
                return true; // Not empty
            }
        }
?>

Then do

git commit -m "message"
git push