Re: [PATCH] Make git-reset delete empty directories

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 17, 2006, 08:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7j7u8koz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060217072616.GA15358@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> When git-reset --hard is used and a subdirectory becomes
> empty (as it contains no tracked files in the target tree)
> the empty subdirectory should be removed.

I thought I said it would be a few-liner, but it appears I did not send that message.

This untested one is far simpler, if less efficient, isn't it?

---

diff --git a/git-reset.sh b/git-reset.sh
index fe53fc8..195d043 100755
--- a/git-reset.sh
+++ b/git-reset.sh
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ case "$reset_type" in
 				# it is ok if this fails -- it may already
 				# have been culled by checkout-index.
 				unlink $_;
+				while (s|/[^/]*$|| && $_ ne "") {
+					rmdir($_) or last;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	' $tmp-exists