diff --git a/make_triton_model_repo.sh b/make_triton_model_repo.sh
index b2d6f07b659959539208b89dcaccd76581b4a4cc..fa5cae683534b217caacd94b6b4dae8319f14c48 100644
--- a/make_triton_model_repo.sh
+++ b/make_triton_model_repo.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ cd ssmt_triton_repo
 cp -r ../triton_models/ssmt_pipeline .
 cp -r ../triton_models/ssmt_model_demuxer .
 cp -r ../triton_models/ssmt_tokenizer .
-mkdir ssmt_tokenizer/1/bpe_src
 cp -r ../models/*.src ssmt_tokenizer/1/bpe_src
 cp -r ../triton_models/ssmt_template_model_repo ssmt_1_ct2
 cp -r ../models/1_ct2 ssmt_1_ct2/1/translator
diff --git a/triton_models/ssmt_pipeline/1/.gitkeep b/triton_models/ssmt_pipeline/1/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/triton_models/ssmt_tokenizer/1/bpe_src/.gitkeep b/triton_models/ssmt_tokenizer/1/bpe_src/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391