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

> On Jul 19, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 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_.
> 
> But this alters the content of the directory away from what I want it to be,
> namely empty.  You aren't addressing the concept of tracking an empty
> directory, you're just saying you won't do it.