From: Abscissa <bus_nabble_git@semitwist.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:03:45 GMT
Subject: Re: SVN -> Git *but* with special changes
Message-ID: <1317233025014-6841234.post@n2.nabble.com>
In-Reply-To: <16808473.33899.1317229852319.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>

>> 1. Directories can exist even if there's nothing in them (just like
>> any filesystem).
>
>What requires the empty directories to exist?  The build system?

Yes.

>Can you just let them go away in Git and fix it downstream in the user's
working copy?

That won't work retroactively for already-existing revisions. I'd rather not
break the build system for older revisions just for such a goofy reason as
empty dirs being deemed unnecessary.


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