Is it possible to create a sub-folder directly through the GitHub web application?

Question

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I have looked over the documentation and my search for directory or folder did not come up except in reference to cloning entire github directories.

I have also looked over this a previous question "How do I add files and folders into github repos?", but it does not seem to answer this question.

An example of what I am trying to create can be found at https://github.com/rstudio/shiny/R with R being the sub-directory that I would like to create.

Thank you as always for your consideration, Francis

Answer 1

Git only tracks files, not directories. So you can't have an empty directory, it mush have at least one file in it, in order to be in git.

You can create a new file in a new directory through GitHub's web-interface. See this explanation. You can specify a new file in a new directory in the file name like directory/file.r or dir/subdir/file.r.

If you don't want any code in the directory, you could add a blank file named README.

P.S. That repo already has a directory R, you can see it here