From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:16:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Empty directories...
Message-ID: <85zm1uxmmw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <vpqfy3m7dex.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> 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?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum