Re: Empty directories...

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To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@...>
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Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 2:07 am

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:


The FAQ answer is weazeling on several accounts:

a) No, git only cares about files, or rather git tracks content and
   empty directories have no content.

In the same manner as empty regular files have no contents, and git
tracks those.  Existence and permissions are important.

b) The problem is not just that empty directories don't get added into
the repository.  They also don't get removed again when switching to a
different checkout.  When git-diff returns zero, I expect a subsequent
checkout to not leave complete empty hierarchies around because git
can't delete any empty leaves which it chose not to track.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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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)