diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4c5a9c8..e67a655 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Thumbs.db
 #*
 .idea/*
 data/*
+!data/.gitkeep
 tags
 cache/htmlpurifier/*/*ser
 lib/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/*/*ser
diff --git a/data/.gitkeep b/data/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29