Subject: Re: [1.8.0] Tracking empty directories

From: Thomas Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 19:31:10 +0100

Jakub Narebski:
> there is (supposedly) problem when checking out such tree (see email
> referenced above) with an old git.
Proposal:

- Implement the possibility to checkout/read/handle empty directories as soon 
as possible, even in the next 1.7.x release.
- Don't implement the possibility to create/commit empty directories yet.
- Implement the possibility to checkin empty directories next year, but allow 
it only, if the user knows that this breaks backwards compatibility of the 
repo. (Generate warning and require --commit-empty-directories option)

Sorry if this should be crap. I'm not a GIT dev.

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro