Re: Empty directories...

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

quoted

This must likely be the most common FAQ/rant/whatever concerning git.

If you had the idea already, I wonder why you did not find it.  It's not 
really anything like hard to find:

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-1fbd4a018d45259c197b169e87dafce2a3c6b5f9

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