Every new project in Figma Make now asks me to to save a gitkeep file. I assume this is a bug? Since when should designers be responsible for managing these production-level files?
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Gitkeep file appearing in chat
Hey
I can see how it would seem strange for you to encounter that when using Make, especially if you aren’t diving into the code yourself. I made a couple test apps in Figma Make (one in an existing project, and one in a new project), but neither included a .gitkeep file. There’s obviously a lot of room for differences in my tests versus what you are seeing, though.
Are you prompting Figma Make to create empty folders in your app? While a .gitkeep file is not a formal Git convention, it can sometimes be used as a way to track empty folders - essentially you are adding it as an empty file to a folder so Git will track the empty folder. Depending on what you are prompting, maybe the AI is adding an empty folder for some reason and adding that file to it.
Do you save or discard the change? If you are discarding it, you might want to save it so that it doesn’t keep adding it back and asking you to save it again.
It’s a mix of me creating folders and Claude creating folders. Either way, after a folder has been created I get a “files edited” like above. It’s just odd that empty files suddenly require the user to commit / save them. If I don’t save them, each prompt ends with the save action again.
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