From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:40:30 GMT
Subject: Re: empty directories
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:

> 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