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		pavel_lishin on Jan 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Real Difference Between Git and Mercurial In git, we solve this problem by sticking a .gitignore file in any directories we want to be part of the repo, but without the contents (cache folders, user-generated data destinations, etc.) How do you get around this in mercurial?

getsat on Jan 19, 2012 | [–]

It's usually .gitkeep from what I've seen. .gitignore usually lives in the repo root.

tonfa on Jan 20, 2012 | [–]

> How do you get around this in mercurial?

Same (with a .empty or .keep file).

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