Re: cg-status and empty directories

> Hello,
> 
> Short story: Recently I noticed a change in the way, cogito handles
> empty directories.  Before, empty directories have been silently
> ignored. Now cg-status always lists the status of empty directories as
> unknown, but it still refuses to add them. If there is a good reason
> for this behaviour, can someone enlighten me?
> 
> Long story: I'm using cogito to track and distribute changes on the
> /etc directories of a few (almost) identical machines.  Whenever I
> install a package which modifies somthing in /etc, I commit those
> changes.  But with cg-status reporting all the empty directories as
> "unknown", my brain needs a long time to parse the list and find the
> really unknown files which shall be put under version control.
> 
> Many packages put empty directories under /etc, and although only a
> few of those directories are actually needed, the automatic removal of
> those packages will fail if I remove the empty directories manually.  
> Equally, the removal will fail, if I put a .placeholder file into
> those direrectories and cg-add it.  Is there a simple way out?
>