Re: why still no empty directory support in git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 2, 2009, 18:55 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901021954410.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090101200651.GB6536@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:58:46AM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> 
> > So, let's say I take your suggestion.
> >
> > $ touch ~/Maildir/new/.exists
> > $ git add ~/Maildir/new/.exists && git commit -m "La di da"
> >
> > Now a spec-compliant Maildir user agent will attempt to deliver this new  
> > "email message" of zero bytes into the mail spool and assign it a message  
> > UID.  Doing so will remove it from Maildir/new.
> 
> No. The maildir spec says:
> 
>   A unique name can be anything that doesn't contain a colon (or slash)
>   and doesn't start with a dot.
>      -- http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
> 
> where a "unique name" is the filename used for a message. In practice,
> every maildir implementation I have seen ignores files starting with a
> dot. Do you have one that doesn't?

For the record, I am using Git to manage my mails, and never had any problems after installing a hook which marks new empty directories with .gitignore.

Ciao, Dscho