From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:21:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...
Message-ID: <86abts8r6z.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <86bqe8a7ql.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> 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