"state" not being writable

[joshribakoff]

Upon installing it gives an error about "state" not being writable, which doesn't exist. I have to create it & then make it writable. You should have it automatically create it, or check the empty folder into VCS.

[dweeves]

ok, this one is due to github not handling empty directories, i'll add code to create it if not found, thanks for spotting

[joshribakoff]

That's actually git, not github - the way to do that is to create a .gitignore file which says "ignore every file in this directory except the .gitignore file itself". It would look like this:

*
!.gitignore

Git will then commit the directory since it's not empty (but it will ignore all the cache/other files in that directory). One good thing about git is that it will also commit the permissions, so if you chmod the dir 777 and commit it, then I clone your repo, the directory has the same file permissions on my machine as on yours.

I was pretty resistant to git at first myself, its more complex than SVN... but I find myself more productive with git than SVN once I got the hang of it.

[digibeuk]

Normally you would use a .gitkeep file for this