git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH v2] git-svn: New flag to emulate empty directories

From
Ray Chen <rchen@cs.umd.edu>
Date
Jun 1, 2011, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID
<loom.20110601T231627-922@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To
<1306391903-22092-1-git-send-email-rchen@cs.umd.edu>
Ray Chen <rchen <at> cs.umd.edu> writes:
Show 9 quoted lines
> 
> Adds the --preserve-empty-dirs flag to the clone operation that will
> detect empty directories in the target Subversion repository and create
> placeholder files in the corresponding local Git directories.  This allows
> "empty" directories to exist in the history of a Git repository.
> 
> Also adds the --placeholder-file flag to control the name of any
> placeholder files created.  Default value is ".gitignore".
> 
Is there anything I can do to make this patch more palatable for inclusion?

It'd also be fine if this patch got left by the wayside. I recognize that cloning Subversion repositories with empty directories is something of a corner case.

- Ray
Previous: Ray ChenNext: Eric Wong
Message 2 of 3 in “git-svn: New flag to emulate empty directories”
  1. git-svn: New flag to emulate empty directoriesRay Chen, May 26, 2011
  2. Ray ChenJun 1, 2011
  3. Eric WongJun 28, 2011

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.