Re[2]: [PATCH 4/5] git-svn: fix bottleneck in stash_placeholder_list()

JCH> ...and you want to perform a merge on the JCH> Git side of that branch with another Git branch that does have real JCH> contents in that directory, you would want the result to say "This JCH> directory no longer is just for a placeholder", but you cannot say JCH> that globally by updating the config file Placeholder files are managed when fetching from SVN. SVN doesn't support Git-like merges.

JCH> comment line "# added by git-svn only to keep the directory" and JCH> consider a directory that has nothing but .gitignore that consists JCH> of only that exact comment line an "added placeholder" directory to JCH> work it around. Sounds good, but it's not I who decided to use the config file.