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Re: git wish page

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 27, 2007, 15:26 UTC
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<200704271626.07562.andyparkins@gmail.com>
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<200704271650.27923.jnareb@gmail.com>
On Friday 2007 April 27, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>  Q. Can I add empty directories?
>
>  A. No, git only cares about files, or rather git tracks content and
>     empty directories have no content.

I don't object to git not tracking directories, but that's not a good justification for why git doesn't. git will happily track an empty file and that has no content.

Andy
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  1. Jakub NarebskiApr 27, 2007
  2. Andy ParkinsApr 27, 2007

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