From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:29:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cache-tree: do not cache empty trees
Message-ID: <201102161530.01017.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110215111926.5fdafa1d@chalon.bertin.fr>

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:30:00 -0600
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> > For storage of empty subtrees in repos imported from svn, Yann's idea
> > of using .gitattributes somehow (maybe in the parent directory or
> > maybe in the subdir itself) seems oddly appealing.
> 
> In fact, I was mostly thinking about only using the
> toplevel .gitattributes, if only to avoid the same sort
> of clutter caused by the .gitignore-trick.

I was thinking about configuration variable (to keep or automatically
delete empty directories), overridable per-pathname basis with 
.gitattributes, similarly to 'eof' situation.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland