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Re: git-svn and empty directories

From
Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Date
Dec 22, 2008, 08:58 UTC
Message-ID
<200812220958.55614.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
In-Reply-To
<20081221070854.GA22014@hand.yhbt.net>
Hello Eric,
On Sunday, 21. December 2008 08:08:54 Eric Wong wrote:
> Modern git-svn never touches the working tree during fetch, it hashes
> objects into the database and adds those to the indexes directly.
Ok
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> However, I don't think your proposal is a good idea since it adds too
> much "magic".  Complex special cases for delta application if the
> .gitignore gets real content and backwards-incompatibility since I know
> some git-svn users already rely on pushing .gitignore files (empty or
> otherwise) to an upstream SVN repo.
>
> The minor problem of missing empty directories isn't big enough to be
> worth the trouble IMHO.

Ok, this seems to be too much effort to fix. I manually added the directories to my HEAD version and really hope I don't have to ever checkout and build something from the past *fingers crossed* :-)

Cheers, Thomas

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