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

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 19, 2007, 13:21 UTC
Message-ID: <86abts8r6z.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <86bqe8a7ql.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

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> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Although it would be natural to have
>> core.adddirs: false
>> be equivalent to
>> core.excludefile: .
>>
>> And so it might be possible to actually not need a separate
>> core.adddirs option at all, technically.
>
> To followup on myself here:
>
> A project such as the linux kernel which presumably does not want to
> have directories tracked will put the single pattern
> .
> into its top-level .gitignore file.  That is all.  At least if it does
> not confuse current versions of git to do ugly things.

Another followup: it doesn't. I placed a single line . into a .gitignore file. This did not cause git to ignore the contents of ., and even git-add . worked as previously, namely adding the contents of the current directory and subdirectories to the index.

In short: the gitignore idea for policing directory management is perfectly upwards-compatible with current versions of git.

-- 
David Kastrup