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Re: empty directories and git Question

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Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date
Sep 16, 2010, 19:30 UTC
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Apologies to those who were CC'd on the original message, I'm resending to this list as I forgot to set plain text.
I've always wondered about that. Why do we still have this restriction? There is a sha1 hash that is equivalent to the empty tree (4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904). Why can't git just use that to represent an empty directory? I imagine things that touch the working copy may need to be updated to be aware of this, but the problem doesn't seem insurmountable.
-Kevin Ballard
On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> You can't have empty directories in git.
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