Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 22, 2007, 18:58 UTC
Message-ID: <85ir8ci7td.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <85abtpoydg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> So  when we are talking about a repository tree _becoming_ empty, we 
>> need the information whether or whether not we should remove it upon
>> becoming empty.
>
> You don't seem to realize - although I've told you now abotu a million 
> times - that what you are talking about is:
>
>  - technically exactly the same as ".gitignore", which for some 
>    unfathomable reason you cannot seem to accept.

Linus? Do both of us a favor and forget about the "." proposal. Since I already dropped it, we can save time if you rant about the proposal I have replaced it with and call me an idiot for a different reason.

> Quite frankly, Junio would be a total idiot to take any patches that do 
> what you want to do. Happily, he is anything but.

And he does not come across as one.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum