From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:58:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...
Message-ID: <85sl7jty43.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vir8f24o2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
>> So the whole notion of "remembering" whether a directory was added 
>> explicitly as an empty directory or not is just not a sensible concept in 
>> git. 
>
> That is true if it is implemented as David suggested, to have a
> phony "." entry in the tree object itself.

Unix file systems contain a phony "." entry in the directory itself,
and have survived in spite of this.

> The object name of such a tree (when it contains blobs and trees
> underneath) will be different from a tree that contains the same set
> of blobs and trees.  It would destroy the fundamental concepts of
> git.

Like "." destroyed the fundamental concepts of Unix filesystems.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum