Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Another issue I thought about was what you would do in the step
3 in the following:

 1. David says "mkdir D; git add D"; you add S_IFDIR entry in
    the index at D;

 2. David says "date >D/F; git add D/F"; presumably you drop D
    from the index (to keep the index more backward compatible)
    and add S_IFREG entry at D/F.

 3. David says "git rm D/F".

Have we stopped keeping track of the "empty directory" at this
point?

Sadly yes.  But I don't think that's what the folks who want to
track empty directories want to have happen here.

Which is why I'm thinking we just need to track the directory, as a
node in the index, even if there are files in it, and even if we got
that directory and its contained files there by just unpacking trees.

-- 
Shawn.