Re: empty directories

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Aug 21, 2007, 17:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20070821134030.b763e9d3.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1187716461.5986.71.camel@beauty>

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:14:21 -0600 "Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> wrote:

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> Git doesn't seem to allow me to add an empty directory to the index, or
> even nested empty directories.  Is there any way to do this?  What is
> the reasoning?  I've got a use case where having empty directories in my
> git repository would be *very* valuable.  Any information and help is
> greatly appreciated.

Hi Josh,

Git doesn't track empty directories. There is a brief note about it in the FAQ:

 http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-1fbd4a018d45259c197b169e87dafce2a3c6b5f9

Sean

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