Subject: Re: [PATCH] cache-tree: do not cache empty trees

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:29:58 +0100

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:30:00 -0600
> Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > For storage of empty subtrees in repos imported from svn, Yann's idea
> > of using .gitattributes somehow (maybe in the parent directory or
> > maybe in the subdir itself) seems oddly appealing.
> 
> In fact, I was mostly thinking about only using the
> toplevel .gitattributes, if only to avoid the same sort
> of clutter caused by the .gitignore-trick.

I was thinking about configuration variable (to keep or automatically
delete empty directories), overridable per-pathname basis with 
.gitattributes, similarly to 'eof' situation.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland