where do all those .gitkeep files come from? I did not create them

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7229885/what-are-the-differences-between-gitignore-and-gitkeep

So … I certainly have not ever created any .gitkeep in order to get Git to keep track of an empty directory. I rather suspect, that one of the utilities created them for me. I will observe that and report here later.