From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:36:49 GMT
Subject: Re: why still no empty directory support in git
Message-ID: <46dff0320812300736x78e0086dq14fbd2c2f8f7f8c2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200812300758.41988.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Robin Rosenberg
<robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:

> You can have an empty tree, but the index doesn't store them,
> so they would be lost on checkout/commit. Linus sketched a solution,
> but nobody took the bait. Seems doable if anyone really wants it, but
> I'm certain it adds a lot of special cases.
>
> Look for a discussion [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories... posted on 2007-07-19.
> It's in the middle of a long thread.
>
Thanks for pointing me to that thread. For other's convenience, the
begin of the thread is
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52813