how to create new subfolder in git repository?

Question

I have a to add files in new subdirectory tothe existing repo... Say I have a repo http://myrepo.git with folder work and I have to add new files in folder subject under work. I found docs to explain how to add project to repo:

cd subject
git init
git add .
git commit
git remote add origin http://myrepo.git
git remote -v; git push origin master

But this seems to be designed to add my files to myrepo.git, how can I keep myrepo.git/work/subject directory structure? Thanks

Answer 1

You can't add an empty directory to git.

The general workaround is to add an empty file .gitkeep and to add it to git:

touch work/subject/.gitkeep
git add work/subject/.gitkeep
git commit -am "Add directory subject"

That way, the directory will exist, and you know can remove this file once you have other ones in this directory.

Answer 2

I have a to add files in new subdirectory tothe existing repo...

The "subject" directory is not empty, i have several new files there

I think you are doing it completely wrong, there is no need to create a fresh git repository and add files to it. Instead, you can add files to the original repo itself:

git clone  myrepo.git
cd work 
mkdir subject && cd subject && touch file1 file2 #touch is equivalent to new files added
git add . && git commit -m "some message"
git push origin master

The above should push your changes to the remote, and as you can clearly see, there is no new repo created in the process.