Add an empty directory?

From: Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com>
Date: Aug 13, 2005, 17:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20050813173043.GA25013@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com>

Greetings,

My appologies if this has already been discussed. I've been through the archives but could easily have missed something.

I have found it useful in the past to have the ability to add an empty directory to the repository. With what little I know about git it seems that this is entirely possible. It would create an empty tree object for the new directory and insert a reference to that in the parent tree object.

If someone could get me started I think I could find the time to create and submit a patch to allow this. Here is what I've tried (with 0.99.4).

% mkdir test % cd test % git-init-db % mkdir dir % git-add-script dir error: open("dir"): No such file or directory fatal: Unable to add dir to database

Cheers, Carl

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