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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 19, 2007, 16:17 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707191715000.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <6C96EBA9-CDCE-40EA-B0EC-F9195DBE83DB@silverinsanity.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

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> On Jul 19, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > I do not like it at all. "." already has a very special meaning.  It 
> > is a _directory_, no place holder.
> 
> And we're talking about using it to describe the directory.
> 
> > More and more I get the impression that this thread is just not worth 
> > it. The problem was solved long ago, and all that is talked about here 
> > is how to complicate things.
> 
> By solved, you mean ignored?  There is no reason for git not to track 
> empty directories other than "we don't like it".

No, no, no, no, no!

You are really trying to annoy me, right?

Here a short description, which you should read until you understand it and then leave me alone:

To add a directory to the tracked content, you have to _mark_ it as tracked. So that when you remove the _real_ content of the directory, Git will not remove it.

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_.