It kind of does, iff you have a file there. In which case it tracks the path to the file, and then creates the relevant directory structure to get to it. Of co

It kind of does, iff you have a file there. In which case it tracks the path to the file, and then creates the relevant directory structure to get to it. Of course git is also incredibly painful and brittle if you want "exclude/except" behavior on the gitignore involving subdirectories.