From: Kevin Ballard Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:30:15 GMT Subject: Re: empty directories and git Question Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4C91D631.9010108@op5.se> 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.