Re: Empty directories...
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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
- Date
- Jul 18, 2007, 06:16 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:
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> 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. > > ,----[ http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg30730.html ] > | From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > | > | I wouldn't personally mind if somebody taught git to just track empty > | directories too. > | > | There is no fundamental git database reason not to allow them: > | it's in fact quite easy to create an empty tree object. > | The problems with empty directories are in the *index*, and they > | shouldn't be insurmountable.
Stop right here: does that mean that I can script some "put empty directories into the last commit manually" procedure bypassing the index?
-- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum