Re: cg-status and empty directories

Jim MacBaine wrote:

Hello,

Short story: Recently I noticed a change in the way, cogito handles
empty directories.  Before, empty directories have been silently
ignored. Now cg-status always lists the status of empty directories as
unknown, but it still refuses to add them. If there is a good reason
for this behaviour, can someone enlighten me?

Long story: I'm using cogito to track and distribute changes on the
/etc directories of a few (almost) identical machines.  Whenever I
install a package which modifies somthing in /etc, I commit those
changes.  But with cg-status reporting all the empty directories as
"unknown", my brain needs a long time to parse the list and find the
really unknown files which shall be put under version control.

Many packages put empty directories under /etc, and although only a
few of those directories are actually needed, the automatic removal of
those packages will fail if I remove the empty directories manually.  
Equally, the removal will fail, if I put a .placeholder file into
those direrectories and cg-add it.  Is there a simple way out?

I'm afraid not.

You should also note that git doesn't track permissions exactly. It just 
notices an execution bit and uses it to determine if it should write the 
working tree using (0666 ^ umask) or (0777 ^ umask). This makes it 
fairly unsuitable for /etc tracking unless you add some sort of 
permission restoring thing to it.

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