From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:17:52 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <6C96EBA9-CDCE-40EA-B0EC-F9195DBE83DB@silverinsanity.com> Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote: > 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_.