Another way to make a directory stay (almost) empty (in the repository) is to create a .gitignore file inside that directory that contains these four lines: Then you don’t have to get the order right the way that you have to do in m104’s solution. This also gives the benefit that files in that directory … Read more
For Windows you can use this solution. Here’s the right way to do it, without the external downloads. It looks like a lot at first, but once you’ve done it, it’s very easy.It works in all Windows versions from 7 back to 95. For our example assume that you’re comparing two directories named ‘A’ and ‘B’. … Read more
Basic rename (or move): Case sensitive rename—eg. from casesensitive to CaseSensitive—you must use a two step: (More about case sensitivity in Git…) …followed by commit and push would be the simplest way to rename a directory in a git repo.
is a useful one-liner which will give you the full directory name of the script no matter where it is being called from. It will work as long as the last component of the path used to find the script is not a symlink (directory links are OK). If you also want to resolve any … Read more
The other answers are correct, in that chmod -R 755 will set these permissions to all files and subfolders in the tree. But why on earth would you want to? It might make sense for the directories, but why set the execute bit on all the files? I suspect what you really want to do is set the … Read more
You want the file module. To create a directory, you need to specify the option state=directory : You can see other options at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/file_module.html
Look at stat for checking if the directory exists, And mkdir, to create a directory. You can see the manual of these functions with the man 2 stat and man 2 mkdir commands.
Update Apr. 2021: there are a few tools created by the community that can do this for you: Download Directory (Credits to fregante) It has also been integrated into the excellent Refined Github chrome extension as a button in the Github web UI. GitZip (Credits to Kino – see his answer here) DownGit (Credits to Minhas Kamal – see his answer here) Note: if you’re trying to download a … Read more
Actually, there is a way to rename a folder using web interface. See https://github.com/blog/1436-moving-and-renaming-files-on-github
The other answers are correct, in that chmod -R 755 will set these permissions to all files and subfolders in the tree. But why on earth would you want to? It might make sense for the directories, but why set the execute bit on all the files? I suspect what you really want to do is set the … Read more