{"thread":{"id":"7873","subject":"Re: git wish page","startedAt":"2007-04-27T14:50:27Z","lastAt":"2007-04-27T15:26:00Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Jakub Narebski","Andy Parkins"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"40598","messageId":"200704271650.27923.jnareb@gmail.com","threadId":"7873","inReplyTo":"f36b08ee0704251505r226a8011h180ec6a8fb4ba5b7@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: git wish page","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-04-27T14:50:27Z","receivedAt":"2007-04-27T14:50:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"On Thursday, 26 April 2007, Yakov Lerner wrote:\n\n> I'd like have a wish added (\"support empty directories\") to the\n>           http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Wishlist\n> git wish page.\n\nFirst of all, from the http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq\n\n Q. Can I add empty directories?\n\n A. No, git only cares about files, or rather git tracks content and\n    empty directories have no content.\n\n    Directories are added automatically when adding files inside them.\n    That is, directories never have to be added to the repository, and\n    are not tracked on their own.\n\n    Though you can say \"git add <dir>\" and it will add files in there.\n\n    If you really need a directory to exist in checkouts, you should\n    create a file in it. .gitignore works well for this purpose; you can\n    leave it empty, or fill in the names of files you expect to show up\n    in the directory.\n\n> What do I need to have it added? \n> \n> Do I just wiki-edit this page and add a wish?\n\nThat is idea of wiki, that anybody can easily edit page.\n\n> Or I email the maintainer of the wiki site ? J.Hamano told me to\n> talk to the \"maintainer\". I think you are maintainer, no ?\n\nThere was some talk about having TODO / Wishlist maintainer on git \nmailing list; somebody who would watch git mailing list (or read \narchives), and optionally #git IRC channel on FreeNode (or browse \narchives), add entries to it, and remove implemented (or move to \n\"Granted wishes\" section).  Currently there is no such person; I am\nnot Wishlist wiki page maintainer.\n\nThe http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Wishlist page was created by Andy Parkins, \nwith some items tongue-in-cheek.\n\nIIRC the admin of GitWiki is Petr \"Pasky\" Baudis; he has admin \nprivileges like ability to delete a page, or rename a page, or add \nextension to MoinMoin wiki engine.  But he doesn't do much (besides \nproviding us with the GitWiki; thanks a lot, pasky), certainly\nhe do not maintain, nor watch, any wiki page.\n\nI have sent from time to time \"[RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list\"\nmessage to git mailing list, to ask for ideas to implement, and which \nideas implement first.\n\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nPoland\n"},{"id":"40601","messageId":"200704271626.07562.andyparkins@gmail.com","threadId":"7873","inReplyTo":"200704271650.27923.jnareb@gmail.com","subject":"Re: git wish page","fromName":"Andy Parkins","fromEmail":"andyparkins@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-04-27T15:26:00Z","receivedAt":"2007-04-27T15:26:00Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"andyparkins@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Friday 2007 April 27, Jakub Narebski wrote:\n\n>  Q. Can I add empty directories?\n>\n>  A. No, git only cares about files, or rather git tracks content and\n>     empty directories have no content.\n\nI don't object to git not tracking directories, but that's not a good \njustification for why git doesn't.  git will happily track an empty file and \nthat has no content.\n\n\n\nAndy\n\n-- \nDr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET\nandyparkins@gmail.com\n"}]}