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Re: Empty directories...

From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:22

David Kastrup [off-list ref] 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.
,----[ 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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