Re: getting rid of extra directories

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 15, 2005, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vu0fimzhn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051015174103.GA2609@tumblerings.org>

Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> writes:

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> I've been using the latest Cogito. When I seek back and forth in a git repo,
> directories I've created tend to persist backward in time, cluttering up
> earlier versions.
>
> By the discussions on this list, I'm pretty sure there's a way to stop this,
> but I don't know clearly what it is, and I'm worried about trying things
> that might corrupt my repository. Could someone spell it out for me please?

I do not know exactly what Cogito "seek back and forth" does, but updating to git-core "master" branch may help.

Specifically, this commit intends to remove empty directory from the working tree, where previously checked out tree object had files/directories inside while newly checked out tree does not.

    commit 340e4f88c083b0692e6554b1c2c27fd43c7cc8d3
    Author: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
    Date:   Mon Oct 10 17:34:08 2005 -0700

        Remove empty directories after read-tree -u.

        This fixes everybody's favorite gripe that switching branch
        with 'git checkout' leaves empty directories.

        Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>