title: Intellij and Github are acting very strangely
body: <p>my issue is that I'm building a web app. I have added base directory like <code>&lt;project_dir&gt;\webapp and &lt;project_dir&gt;\webapp\META-INF and &lt;project_dir&gt;\webapp\views and &lt;project_dir&gt;\src\main\resources\assets</code></p>
  
  <p>the disturbing part, is that intellij, git, github desktop are acting like these resources don't exist.</p>
  
  <p>The only way to make these directories appear is to commit a test file under each directory. But the issue is that when I delete that test file, the directories disappear.</p>
  
  <p>What's going on ?</p>