Re: Empty directories...

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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.

Bzzt. Wrong.

We *do* remove directories when all files under them go away.

HOWEVER (and this is where one of the reasons for not tracking them comes 
in):

   ** YOU CANNOT REMOVE A DIRECTORY IF IT HAS SOME UNTRACKED CONTENTS **

I believe David's point was different.

If you checkout a branch, create an empty directory in this branch
(probably a placeholder, either for future versionned files, or for
generated files), you cannot tell git "this empty directory is in this
branch, but not in other ones" without adding a file in it.

So, doing "git-checkout anotherbranch", this empty directory doesn't
go away. It's just unversionned in both branches, git won't touch it.

-- 
Matthieu

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

If you checkout a branch, create an empty directory in this branch
(probably a placeholder, either for future versionned files, or for
generated files), you cannot tell git "this empty directory is in this
branch, but not in other ones" without adding a file in it.

Right. Which is the suggested setup: add an empty ".gitignore" file to the 
directory, and you're done. It now acts "as if" git tracked the directory 
(git will remove the directory when switching branches), but without the 
lie that we really track any directory contents.

			Linus