Re: Empty directories...

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2007, 02:23 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8x9ea1rg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <85lkdezi08.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> or has somebody a better idea or interface or rationale?  I understand
> that there are use cases where one does not bother about empty
> directories, but for a _content_ tracker, not tracking directories
> because they are empty seems quite serious.

No objections as long as a patch is cleanly made without regression. It's just nobody agreed that it is "quite serious" yet so far, and no fundamental reason against it.

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