Add a .gitkeep file to add empty but required folders to git

[THPubs]

Hi, I just ran into a small issue when using mantra-cli. Hope I can help to solve it :-)

I work with a small team. Recently, my team mate generated a new model and added some code. He pushed his work to the repo. I pulled it and tried to add a new container to the module he created. I got some errors. After trying for some time I realized that the containers folder is missing. Since it's empty, it didn't get pushed to the repo. So, when I pulled, I didn't got that folder. I had to manually create it.

But if we add a empty file in the folder, it will get pushed to the repo. So, I added a empty file called .gitkeep (A standard practice) to the folders. Hope this is a good idea :-)

[sungwoncho]

Hi, this seems like a reasonable solution.

I think if we use outputFileSync from fs-extra module in this line, there is no need for .gitkeep files. Note that we already do this when generating test files (see here).

I prefer the above approach because although .gitkeep is a widely accepted convention, it is not a standard. But I am open to other opinions. Posted on the forum for further discussion: https://talk.mantrajs.com/t/gitkeep-file-necessary-for-mantra-cli/227

[THPubs]

Just updated with the mkdirsSync method from fs-extra. It looks much better now.

[sungwoncho]

Thanks. I don't think this fix will work. createDir already uses mkdirsSync (see here). I think we need to change this line as per my previous comment.

Please let me know if you have other suggestions.

[THPubs]

Ah now I got it! Just reverted the changes and updated the utils.js to use outputFileSync.

[THPubs]

Thanks for the merge :-)

[sungwoncho]

Released in v0.3.12.