create folder in github-How to create folder in github repository?

Question

I want to create a folder in the github repository and add files in that folder. How to achieve this?

Answer 1

You cannot create an empty folder and then add files to that folder, but instead, the creation of a folder must happen together with the addition of at least a single file. On Github you can do it this way:

• go to the folder within which you would like to make another folder

• Click on New file

• on the text field for the file name, first, write the folder name you want to create

• then type /. This creates a folder

• you can add more folders similarly

• finally, give the new file a name, (eg. .gitkeep which is conventionally used to allow git to track otherwise empty folders; not a git feature though)

• finally, click Commit new file.

Comments

Hi,
Thanks for the post. It works. can I go further and make the new folder private? Just the folder, not the whole repo