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Re: cg-status and empty directories

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Mar 26, 2006, 21:37 UTC
Message-ID
<20060326213733.GT18185@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To
<3afbacad0602270643k9fdd255w8f3769ad77c54e65@mail.gmail.com>
  Hi,

Dear diary, on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:43:32PM CET, I got a letter where Jim MacBaine <jmacbaine@gmail.com> said that...

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> Many packages put empty directories under /etc, and although only a
> few of those directories are actually needed, the automatic removal of
> those packages will fail if I remove the empty directories manually.  
> Equally, the removal will fail, if I put a .placeholder file into
> those direrectories and cg-add it.  Is there a simple way out?
  BTW, with Cogito-0.17.1 the simple way out should be cg-status -S
which restores the original behaviour.
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 7 of 7 in “cg-status and empty directories”
  1. Jim MacBaineFeb 27, 2006
  2. Andreas EricssonFeb 27, 2006
  3. Jim MacBaineFeb 27, 2006
  4. Do not ever list empty directories in git-ls-files --othersPetr Baudis, Mar 26, 2006
  5. Optionally do not list empty directories in git-ls-files --othersPetr Baudis, Mar 26, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2006
  7. Petr BaudisMar 26, 2006

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