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

From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2007, 10:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20070720101942.GA77248@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707191706120.27249@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:15:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> (*) And, for anybody confused about the issue, the answer to the latter 
> question is an emphatic: "Yes it should, live with it, and if you want the 
> directory back, you had better add it back as an empty directory"

Wouldn't it be perfectly reasonable for git rm to re-add emptied directories as empty transparently if the appropriate flag/configuration is set? rm is porcelain after all.

OG.

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