".gitkeep" isn’t documented, because it’s not a feature of Git.
Git cannot add a completely empty directory. People who want to track empty directories in Git have created the convention of putting files called “.gitkeep” in these directories. The file could be called anything; Git assigns no special significance to this name.
There is a competing convention of adding a “.gitignore” file to the empty directories to get them tracked, but some people see this as confusing since the goal is to keep the empty directories, not ignore them; “.gitignore” is also used to list files that should be ignored by Git when looking for untracked files.
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