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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 20, 2007, 02:31 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707191930030.27249@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vir8f24o2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> But you _could_ treat that "should-be-kept-even-when-empty"-ness
> just like we treat executable bit on blobs, I think.

True. Or you could make it a path attribute and/or a per-repository decision, so that while the data wouldn't necessarily be in the database itself, the user could specify the behaviour he wanted.

> This will involve a lot of changes, so I would not recommend
> anybody doing so, though.

Agreed. The upside just isn't there.

		Linus

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