From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:28:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...
Message-ID: <86ir8g4au7.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707191715000.14781@racer.site>

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

> Here a short description, which you should read until you understand
> it and then leave me alone:
>
> To add a directory to the tracked content, you have to _mark_ it as
> tracked.  So that when you remove the _real_ content of the
> directory, Git will not remove it.

Correct.  That is what my proposal is about.

> 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.

Uh, then the directories are no longer empty.

> So go and add your directories via that marker, and _be done with
> it_.

But one is not done before running

find -name .gitignore -delete

and then the next recursive add will remove the .gitignore "markers".
The idea of "." is to have a marker that does _not_ appear in the work
directory.

-- 
David Kastrup