Re: Empty directories...

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Jul 18, 2007, 00:39 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqfy3m7dex.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <85lkdezi08.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> or has somebody a better idea or interface or rationale?  I understand
> that there are use cases where one does not bother about empty
> directories, but for a _content_ tracker, not tracking directories
> because they are empty seems quite serious.

,----[ http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg30730.html ]
| From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| 
| I wouldn't personally mind if somebody taught git to just track empty
| directories too.
| 
| There is no fundamental git database reason not to allow them: it's in
| fact quite easy to create an empty tree object. The problems with
| empty directories are in the *index*, and they shouldn't be
| insurmountable.
| 
| [...]
`----

-- 
Matthieu

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