From a7a9f85009f04164e59de69141ece27095fb77c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jose Gracia <gracia@hlrs.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:47:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add empty README to trick git and spack into acknowledging
 the directory/repository

---
 repos/hlrs/packages/README | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 repos/hlrs/packages/README

diff --git a/repos/hlrs/packages/README b/repos/hlrs/packages/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e39a69e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/repos/hlrs/packages/README
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# This README just serves the purpose of forcing git to create this packages directory. 
+# Otherwise Spack will not accept it as a repository (sigh!)
\ No newline at end of file