From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:54:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking empty directories
Message-ID: <AANLkTikkymYmnXh7XB1SM8br_oK-YmAJYfkwjTuLzr+f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201102012003.50941.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> To add, one would use "git update-index --add".
>
> Porcelain version could be "git add -N <directory>", don't you agree?

"git add" is recursive, with or without -N. What I worry is user
accidentally "git add -N <dir>" where <dir> is not empty, which adds
everything in <dir>.

>> The magic disappears when you register a file within that directory;
>> to tell git you want to keep it, one would mkdir and
>> "git update-index --add" again.  Once it's working, we can think about
>> if there is a need for making that last step automatic after all
>> (my guess: "no"). ;-)
>
> Hmmm... could we use mechanism similar to assume-unchanged to mark
> directory as explicitely tracked, and that git should not remove it
> when it becomes empty?

I think git-attr suits better, more persistent. Although if you insist
the directory must stay, why not just put a hidden file in there?
-- 
Duy