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cg-update doesn't clean away empty directories

Subject: cg-update doesn't clean away empty directories

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Luck, Tony· May 6, 2005, 16:22 UTC · lore

I just did a cg-update from Linus' tree, and all the files in Documentation/BK-Usage were neatly thrown away from my working directory. But Documentation/BK-Usage itself is still there. Looking at the output from git-ls-tree it was removed from the GIT level.

-Tony

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