From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:17:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge-one-file: remove empty directories Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v4q683qhe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > [jc: We probably could use "rmdir -p", but for now we do that by > hand for portability.] Some googling seems to imply that "-p" is pretty much globally available. It's in POSIX.1, but more importantly, it seems to actually be actively used in BSD projects, and I found a man-page with copyright date in -92 (SCO of all places) which mentiones AT&T SVID2 - but not the more modern standards. Even VMS seems to have it (although if git is ever ported to VMS, I'll just have to shoot myself. I used VMS in -88, and the scars are _still_ fresh). Linus