How to force git to keep a directory but ignore all files inside it?

Question:

I have a certain folder and logs that are essential for my application to work. I would like to add it to my repository, for those who replicate don't want to keep creating the same when doing git clone . But the detail is that the log files should not go to the repository, but only the folder.

How to do this?

Answer:

To do this in git just add a .gitignore file inside the desired folder and then determined that all files except the .gitignore will be ignored inside that folder.

Structure:

logs/
    .gitignore

Content of the .gitignore that is inside the logs folder:

*
!.gitignore

Now just use the git add logs/ command. Thus, the logs folder will be added to the repository, but the log files in that folder will be ignored.

I usually use this a lot for uploads folder that need to exist, but I don't need the files that are in it.