Re: why still no empty directory support in git

From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>
Date: Jan 8, 2009, 07:12 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0901072251420.9933@vellum.laroia.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090101200651.GB6536@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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?

My apologies. This works just fine, and I'm a dolt.

Happy new year!

(I'm still academically interested in how to avoid the rmdir(), but as I said before, that's a topic for someone else to pick up now.)

-- Asheesh.

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