From: David Kastrup Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:54:10 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories... Message-ID: <85d4ymtnrx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> In-Reply-To: <85hcnytuq8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> David Kastrup writes: > The only difference is that I am calling the file ".". Which is in > _all_ respects nothing more than a naming convention. > > However, this convention has distinct advantages over ".notignore": > > a) I don't have to depart as far from reality. Whenever I try > registering ".", I can rely on the work directory actually _having_ > "." as a _real_, not a pseudofile. It will not actually be a > _regular_ file as I'll tell git: that's a wart of my prototype > implementation which will, no doubt, eventually be fixed by others > _if_ the code does its job fine apart from being ugly to look at. Update: well, I am still digging through the code, but this is all so well factored that it might be perfectly feasible to have S_ISDIR entries after all without too much of a hassle. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum