From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:34:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...
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:

> 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