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From: Ralf Nyren <ralf.nyren@ericsson•com>
To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge•com>
Cc: "git@vger•kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange effect merging empty file
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:39:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6B1D8C.9040500@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86iphwomnq.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>

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On 22/03/12 13:17, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Zbigniew" == Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek<zbyszek@in•waw.pl>  writes:
>
> Zbigniew>  touch .gitignore
>
> If you're doing this to make sure git makes an empty directory, always
> put the directory name in there as a comment... that makes it (a) not an
> empty file (so merge doesn't get confused) and (b) unique, so when you
> change it, merge won't try to change other similar empty files.

Good point.

Renaming directories makes the comment out-of-date but since uniqueness 
is what matters it should not be a problem.

regards, Ralf



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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-22 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-21 10:28 Strange effect merging empty file Ralf Nyren
2012-03-21 10:54 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-21 17:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 12:17   ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-03-22 12:39     ` Ralf Nyren [this message]
2012-03-22 12:47     ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-22 14:01       ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 17:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 17:59           ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:25             ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:52               ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:53                 ` [PATCH 1/3] drop casts from users EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:53                 ` [PATCH 2/3] make is_empty_blob_sha1 available everywhere Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:53                 ` [PATCH 3/3] merge-recursive: don't detect renames from empty files Jeff King
2012-03-22 19:18                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-22 21:53                     ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:52               ` Strange effect merging empty file Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 19:03                 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 19:12                   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 22:46                     ` [PATCH 0/2] merging renames of empty files Jeff King
2012-03-22 22:52                       ` [PATCH 1/2] teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content Jeff King
2012-03-22 22:52                       ` [PATCH 2/2] merge-recursive: don't detect renames of empty files Jeff King
2012-03-22 23:37                       ` [PATCH 0/2] merging " Junio C Hamano
2012-03-23  0:23                         ` Jeff King
2012-03-23  4:56                           ` Junio C Hamano

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