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

From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2007, 16:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CC669745-4434-478E-9A24-E474071578C6@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707191715000.14781@racer.site>

On Jul 19, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> 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.

~~ Brian

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