Re: [BUG] git-svn dcommit fails (connection closed unexpectedly)

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: May 13, 2007, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20070513182405.GA13618@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200705131949.38051.list-receive@mneisen.org>

On 2007-05-13 19:49:34 +0200, Martin Eisenhardt wrote:

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> Another case where I stumbled upon said error message was when I
> added an empty (sub)directory to a project in subversion and then
> used git to track that project. Since git cannot track an empty
> directory, it did not appear in my git working copy. When I mkdir'd
> the directory locally (in my git wc) and then tried to add files
> within that repository, I got exactly the same error as Matthieu.

It might be a net win to let git-svn handle empty directories by creating an empty .git-svn-empty-dir file in them, instead of pretending they don't exist.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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