Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 19, 2007, 05:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20070719053858.GE32566@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqe93qtv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Another issue I thought about was what you would do in the step
> 3 in the following:
> 
>  1. David says "mkdir D; git add D"; you add S_IFDIR entry in
>     the index at D;
> 
>  2. David says "date >D/F; git add D/F"; presumably you drop D
>     from the index (to keep the index more backward compatible)
>     and add S_IFREG entry at D/F.
> 
>  3. David says "git rm D/F".
> 
> Have we stopped keeping track of the "empty directory" at this
> point?

Sadly yes. But I don't think that's what the folks who want to track empty directories want to have happen here.

Which is why I'm thinking we just need to track the directory, as a node in the index, even if there are files in it, and even if we got that directory and its contained files there by just unpacking trees.

-- 
Shawn.