Re: Empty directories...

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Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 8:39 pm

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:


,----[ http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg30730.html ]
| 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
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Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Tue Jul 17, 8:13 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., Robin Rosenberg, (Thu Jul 26, 7:33 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Fri Jul 27, 1:22 am)
Re: Empty directories..., Junio C Hamano, (Tue Jul 17, 10:23 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Wed Jul 18, 1:56 am)
Re: Empty directories..., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Jul 18, 2:53 am)
Re: Empty directories..., Johan Herland, (Fri Jul 20, 4:29 am)
Re: Empty directories..., Wincent Colaiuta, (Wed Jul 18, 2:34 am)
Re: Empty directories..., Matthieu Moy, (Tue Jul 17, 8:39 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Jul 17, 8:35 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Wed Jul 18, 2:07 am)
Re: Empty directories..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jul 18, 12:23 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Wed Jul 18, 1:34 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., Matthieu Moy, (Wed Jul 18, 12:39 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jul 18, 1:06 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Wed Jul 18, 5:37 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jul 18, 5:45 pm)
[RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jul 18, 7:16 pm)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jul 18, 7:40 pm)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Wed Jul 18, 7:42 pm)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jul 18, 8:22 pm)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Junio C Hamano, (Thu Jul 19, 1:28 am)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Shawn O. Pearce, (Thu Jul 19, 1:38 am)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Shawn O. Pearce, (Thu Jul 19, 2:09 am)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Matthieu Moy, (Thu Jul 19, 4:13 am)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Tomash Brechko, (Thu Jul 19, 6:51 am)
Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories..., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Jul 19, 8:16 am)
Re: Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Wed Jul 18, 7:13 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jul 18, 12:33 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., David Kastrup, (Wed Jul 18, 1:38 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jul 18, 2:05 pm)
Re: Empty directories..., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Jul 18, 6:26 am)