Re: empty directories

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 22, 2007, 18:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708221144160.30176@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <fage86$hui$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Salikh Zakirov wrote:

> 
> Linus Torvalds posted an untested patch in a recent discussion and requested
> that anyone interested in this functionality continued development and testing.

That untested patch was seriously broken - it didn't do the sorting of empty directories right. So it would need a lot of other work.

So I'm firmly back in the "just add a '.gitignore' file to the directory" camp.

Or you can fake it out entirely by making it an empty subproject, which also gives you an empty directory.

			Linus

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