I'm not sure if I'm the one to blame for this or not, but the earliest reference to ".gitkeep" I can find online is my 2010 answer on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4250082/28422

If this is all my fault, I'm sorry.

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selridge 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This is delightful. Accidental load-bearing SO post.

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jkubicek 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It's especially funny since my answer is wrong anyway! The other top answer is much better. I did get a lot of early SO brownie points from that one answer though.

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juggerl6 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Thankfully AI has put an end to the scourge of confidently-wrong SO hallucinations.

	▲	adastra22 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, Claude is here making .gitkeep files like nobody's business.