Comments on: Mercurial wins me over

By: sPOiDar

sPOiDar — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:18:24 +0000

Unix is cool:

find . -type d -empty |xargs -i{} touch “{}”/.keep

By: closingbraces

closingbraces — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:29:30 +0000

Jonny, thanks for pointing out your markemptydirs tool. Looks like a nice simple answer for automatically creating and removing placeholder files. It doesn't suit me personally at the moment due to being .Net or needing Mono (not worth introducing these into my build process and then administer/maintain/patch etc for something as minor as this), but handy to know about, and I can see it being a neat little answer for anyone who wants to automate this.

By: Jonny Dee

Jonny Dee — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:47:06 +0000

Hi, if you want an open source tool that manages the creation and deletion of placeholder files automatically just have a look at http://freshmeat.net/projects/markemptydirs.

By: closingbraces

closingbraces — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:04:24 +0000

Thanks Pocho.

By: Pocho

Pocho — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:39:39 +0000

If you want to automatically create keep files for empty directories, here is a Python script that'll do just that.


import os
from os.path import join, getsize
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('C:/proyects/myproject'):
    print root, "... ",
    if len(dirs) == 0 and len(files) == 0:
        open(root + "/keep", 'w')
        print "creating keep"
    else:
        print ''

os.system('pause')