From: Asheesh Laroia Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:12:57 GMT Subject: Re: why still no empty directory support in git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090101200651.GB6536@coredump.intra.peff.net> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote: > 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. -- English literature's performing flea. -- Sean O'Casey on P. G. Wodehouse