Re: Empty directories...

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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.

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| 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.

Stop right here: does that mean that I can script some "put empty
directories into the last commit manually" procedure bypassing the
index?

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