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Re: empty directories

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 22, 2007, 00:06 UTC
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Josh England wrote:
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> Git doesn't seem to allow me to add an empty directory to the index, or
> even nested empty directories.  Is there any way to do this?  What is
> the reasoning?  I've got a use case where having empty directories in my
> git repository would be *very* valuable.  Any information and help is
> greatly appreciated.

Git does not track empty directories [yet], but you can use empty .gitignore file trick to mark "empty" directories to be added.

There were some discussion about this on git mailing list (see archives), and this issue is most probably mentioned on GitFaq page in git wiki.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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Message 38 of 41 in “empty directories”
  1. Josh EnglandAug 21, 2007
  2. SeanAug 21, 2007
  3. Josh EnglandAug 22, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2007
  5. David KastrupAug 22, 2007
  6. Josh EnglandAug 23, 2007
  7. tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories]Josh England, Aug 23, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2007
  9. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2007
  10. David KastrupAug 24, 2007
  11. Linus TorvaldsAug 24, 2007
  12. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  13. David KastrupAug 24, 2007
  14. Linus TorvaldsAug 24, 2007
  15. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  16. Linus TorvaldsAug 24, 2007
  17. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  18. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2007
  19. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  20. Robin RosenbergAug 24, 2007
  21. David KastrupAug 24, 2007
  22. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2007
  24. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  25. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  26. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  27. Johannes SchindelinAug 24, 2007
  28. Jeff KingAug 24, 2007
  29. Josh EnglandAug 24, 2007
  30. Jeff KingAug 24, 2007
  31. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2007
  32. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2007
  33. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2007
  34. Jeff KingAug 24, 2007
  35. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2007
  36. Jason GarberAug 24, 2007
  37. Jakub NarebskiAug 22, 2007
  38. Jakub NarebskiAug 22, 2007
  39. Salikh ZakirovAug 22, 2007
  40. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2007
  41. David KastrupAug 22, 2007

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