Now – GIT site claims that it’s not-needed feature and no one cares about it . I’d like to disagree. Many of myweb projects require temp, sessions, logs cache directories which are usually empty to start with. Now – I can add .gitignore file into that directory to make GIT track it – but it feels like such a hack and also inconveniences clearing these directories before commit. Another workaround for this they say – use build scripts. I’m sorry – but in many cases id’be writing build scripts for the whole purpose of commiting an empty directories – this just wrong. after prolonged hesitation I’ve decided to rather go with mercurial which handles empty dirs antively..