From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:41:27 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <85r6n1p7sb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote: > Make it have an empty reference, and it is unique. I *really* don't see the point. And you seem to have igored totally my treatise on "content" and how the stuff git tracks must be stuff that is visible and detectable in the trees. And if I understand you correctly, you also wouldn't be backwards compatible. IOW, there's a lot of "why's" at all levels. I don't see the *point*. What's the problem you're trying to solve? Linus