From: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:50:16 GMT
Subject: Re: why still no empty directory support in git
Message-ID: <3665a1a00812311850p59f0f5e7ode1853d26c30b26@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4959BB07.6000106@gmail.com>

Hi

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ping Yin wrote:
> > Yes, i know this topic has been discussed for many times. However, i
> > am still not clear about the real reason.
> >
> > So which is the reason?
> >
> > 1. it's by design, intentional
> It's saied somewhere git is a "stupid content tracker", it cares file content
> not file name, and empty directories will complicate the merge algorithm
> unnecessarily.

Could you please explain how will it complicate merging. What is the
difference between merging 2 directories with 0 and 5 files and
merging 2 directories with 5 and 10 files?

+1 that git should respect empty directories. Git should handle file
content and not decide for user does he want to keep empty directory
in the source tree or not.

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anatol