Subject: Re: Empty directories...

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:39:50 +0200

David Kastrup <[email-masked]> writes:

> or has somebody a better idea or interface or rationale?  I understand
> that there are use cases where one does not bother about empty
> directories, but for a _content_ tracker, not tracking directories
> because they are empty seems quite serious.

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| From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| 
| I wouldn't personally mind if somebody taught git to just track empty
| directories too.
| 
| There is no fundamental git database reason not to allow them: it's in
| fact quite easy to create an empty tree object. The problems with
| empty directories are in the *index*, and they shouldn't be
| insurmountable.
| 
| [...]
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Matthieu