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Re: Tracking empty directories

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 1, 2011, 18:35 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have ideas about how to resolve those tricky corner cases, but not
>> about what the UI should look like.  How does one go about adding a
>> directory?  Does it ever get implicitly removed?
>
> I suppose a special command for it is appropriate (git-keepdir?). Many
> index-related commands are recursive by default and hard to change.
>
> Yes I think it should be automatically removed from index when a file
> is added inside tracked directories. Removing those files will also
> remove the containing directory though.

Okay, I'm convinced. This fits a "worse is better" point of view nicely.

To add, one would use "git update-index --add". The magic disappears when you register a file within that directory; to tell git you want to keep it, one would mkdir and "git update-index --add" again. Once it's working, we can think about if there is a need for making that last step automatic after all (my guess: "no"). ;-)

Use case: [1] Nice starting point: [2] Motivational word of wisdom: [3]

This treatment leaves out the backward compatibility detail. I still think that's the easy part (at worst, we can always implement read support, wait a year, and then turn on write support).

Jonathan

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46947/focus=47278 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52813/focus=52908 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53494

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  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  5. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
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  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2011
  9. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
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  12. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  13. Shawn PearceFeb 2, 2011
  14. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2011
  15. david@lang.hmFeb 2, 2011
  16. Geert BoschFeb 3, 2011
  17. Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)Jonathan Nieder, Feb 3, 2011
  18. Geert BoschFeb 3, 2011
  19. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2011
  20. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2011
  21. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
  22. Tracking empty directoriesJonathan Nieder, Feb 1, 2011
  23. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  24. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 1, 2011
  25. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  26. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 1, 2011
  27. Jonathan NiederFeb 1, 2011
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  29. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 2, 2011
  30. Kevin P. FlemingFeb 2, 2011
  31. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  32. big files in git was: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010david@lang.hm, Feb 1, 2011
  33. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
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  35. Jonathan NiederFeb 1, 2011
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