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The point is to track issues. I thought this was fairly common practice, apps like Keypirinha do this.

That's fine, but why add a folder structure and placeholder files then?

And they still have a repository with the code available as well, so it doesn't mislead anyone into believing that they are source available or open source: https://github.com/Keypirinha/Packages

I wanted github to recognize the project as being written in C++. I made a controversial video about C++ a few months ago and people were clowning me that I had no C++ repos on my github lol.

So you thought putting empty cpp files in a repo for a closed-source project would give you some credibility there?

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