From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:31:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...
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