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Re: [PATCH] merge-one-file: remove empty directories

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Nov 20, 2005, 18:08 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> Even VMS seems to have it (although if git is ever ported to VMS, I'll 
> just have to shoot myself. I used VMS in -88, and the scars are _still_ 
> fresh).
>

Yeah, well, WinNT is basically the successor to VMS. (I have heard from several ex-DECers that WNT was done on top of a stolen copy of what was supposed-to-have-been the successor to VMS.)

	-hpa
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Message 4 of 8 in “Re: please pull powerpc-merge.git”
  1. Linus TorvaldsNov 19, 2005
  2. merge-one-file: remove empty directoriesJunio C Hamano, Nov 20, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsNov 20, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinNov 20, 2005
  5. Alex RiesenNov 21, 2005
  6. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2005
  7. merge-recursive::removeFile: remove empty directoriesJunio C Hamano, Nov 20, 2005
  8. Fredrik KuivinenNov 20, 2005

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