Thanks for the link. I can't believe I never knew about that. I've always been making .gitkeep files to get around this. Not sure if it's worth the hassle, but definitely cool to know.
Sorry about that, everyone- submitted right before I went to Hardly Strictly. Looks like I need to implement EC2 auto-scaling :)
Thanks for the upvotes!
Link seems to be dead and I can't find a cache.. is this article just about 4b825...?
yup- sorry about the slashdotted link. It is about 4b825.