From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:10:04 GMT
Subject: Re: why still no empty directory support in git
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0812300008060.31590@vellum.laroia.net>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320812291942y6aeec941k9394586621e9151b@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Ping Yin wrote:

> 2. unclear logic, for example, whether to remove the directory after the 
> last file in it is deleted

This is the thing I dislike most about git: that it sometimes calls 
rmdir() for me.  At least, one should be able to turn it off in a 
per-repository basis.  I'm going to see how hard a patch that would be to 
write.

> 3. hard work, no one has picked it yet

This is what I recall.

-- Asheesh.

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