Gitkeep file appearing in chat

Hey ​@Josh22! Thanks for your post.

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.

I can see why it seems that way, ​@Josh22.

I did a bit more research on our end and did find that we introduced this change, specifically to ensure that if you add an empty folder it doesn’t get removed later. If you save the file it shouldn’t ask you again except for when adding other new, empty folders. Let me know if you have any other questions!

It keeps asking me to save. So I save to dismiss it. Next prompt it asks me to save the same folders again. Repeat endlessly. Now every prompt is followed by this. I may have to start a new project, maybe it broke this one.

I see what you mean, ​@Josh22 - that definitely doesn’t sound like it should be doing that. 

If you duplicate the file, does it still do it? If you still see it with a duplicate then I’ll create a ticket for you with our support team to escalate the issue. 

Any new Figma Make file where I create folders manually, it gets stuck in a loop of asking me to save the file removal after each prompt. And for each new folder I create, it appends it to the list.

Probably a bug.

You’re right - ​@Josh22, and I was just able to reproduce it. 

I created a bug ticket with our team so they can take a look and resolve this. When I hear back I will update the thread. Thank you again for reporting this!