Feature Idea: Automatic file removal for GIT

[dbashford]

Feature Idea: Automatic file removal for GIT

[dbashford]

The convention for that is to put a .gitkeep file in the folder you want to keep. Could definitely recurse though all the folders removing any leftover .gitkeeps.

[Anachron]

Oh yeah, that's nice. I didn't knew about the .gitkeep until now, thanks!
So I agree that it's best to do it that way, since it's gits internal system.

But since it may take some time to process all folders, maybe it should be optional?
So those Skeletons that don't use the feature won't trigger a recursive scan of all subfolders.

[dbashford]

For skeletons it doesn't really take much time at all. You'd have to have a huge skeleton for it to take more than a second.

[Anachron]

Sounds nice. You agree with the feature being useful or should everyone just do it by himself for the Skeletons that use this kind of feature? I'm planning to do some future work with it but I would enjoy not asking my users to do it by theirself.

[dbashford]

It is definitely preferable to remove the .gitkeep files that would be necessary to deliver empty directories.

[Anachron]

I take that as a yes to implement it into Mimosa. =)
Do you need any more information or is this enough?

[dbashford]

I'm good. =) And yeah, it makes total sense.

[dbashford]

Added this to skelmimosa, pushed to npm and bumped version of skelmimosa in use for mimosa, pushed that too.

[Anachron]

Wow! Awesome.
Will put in some .gitkeep into my Marionette-Skeleton and test it out.
Just curious: Did you test this? There is no skeleton using .gitkeep as far as I have seen.

[dbashford]

I tested with local repo. You can do a mimosa skel:new /foo/bar/baz foldeName to test skeletons locally. Scanning the directory and removing .gitkeeps is sort of ignorant of how the directory got there, so it should be fine via GH hosted skeletons.