[pavel_lishin]

In git, we solve this problem by sticking a .gitignore file in any directories we want to be part of the repo, but without the contents (cache folders, user-generated data destinations, etc.)

How do you get around this in mercurial?

[getsat]

It's usually .gitkeep from what I've seen. .gitignore usually lives in the repo root.

[tonfa]

> How do you get around this in mercurial?

Same (with a .empty or .keep file).