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

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 19, 2007, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID: <867iow2smh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <CC669745-4434-478E-9A24-E474071578C6@silverinsanity.com>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
>
>> On Jul 19, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> 
>> > Alas, we already have such a marker.  It is called ".gitignore", and has
>> > been ignored by _you_.  There is _nothing_ wrong, from a technical
>> > standpoint, to call this marker ".gitignore", and it is _also_ not wrong
>> > to put this marker into the file system _in addition_ to the index.
>> > 
>> > So go and add your directories via that marker, and _be done with it_.
>> 
>> But this alters the content of the directory away from what I want it to be,
>> namely empty.  You aren't addressing the concept of tracking an empty
>> directory, you're just saying you won't do it.
>
> OMG last time I checked, my _empty_ directory contained "." and "..".  
> What do I do now?

If you have a suitable Solaris system, you could try

sudo unlink . sudo unlink ..

and have a chance that this will work until the next file system check.

I don't think that adding tracking of ".." would be easy to implement in git, but I seem to remember that somebody recently proposed a plan of at least tracking "." which would seem better than nothing and possibly more useful than "sudo unlink .".

All the best,

-- 
David Kastrup