From: Olivier Galibert Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:19:42 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories... Message-ID: <20070720101942.GA77248@dspnet.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: 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.