From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:15:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-new-workdir: Don't fail if the target directory is empty
Message-ID: <xmqqvbmcuuyd.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1416339408.3899.22.camel@mad-scientist.net>

Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> writes:

> Getting rid of ls/wc was not as simple as I'd hoped,

I didn't say ls/wc was not portable.  Assuming that a directory for
which the output from "ls -a" has two entries is empty may be.