From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:06:51 GMT
Subject: Re: why still no empty directory support in git
Message-ID: <20090101200651.GB6536@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0812300346040.19911@vellum.laroia.net>

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:58:46AM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> So, let's say I take your suggestion.
>
> $ touch ~/Maildir/new/.exists
> $ git add ~/Maildir/new/.exists && git commit -m "La di da"
>
> Now a spec-compliant Maildir user agent will attempt to deliver this new  
> "email message" of zero bytes into the mail spool and assign it a message  
> UID.  Doing so will remove it from Maildir/new.

No. The maildir spec says:

  A unique name can be anything that doesn't contain a colon (or slash)
  and doesn't start with a dot.
     -- http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

where a "unique name" is the filename used for a message. In practice,
every maildir implementation I have seen ignores files starting with a
dot. Do you have one that doesn't?

-Peff