Re: [1.8.0] Tracking empty directories

"Wesley J. Landaker" [off-list ref] writes:

  2) One of git's best strengths is that it's so easy to interact with other 
SCM software, primarily because git's features are a SUPERSET of other SCMs. 
However, almost every other SCM can track empty directories, except
git, 

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  4) On many projects I work on with a huge number of people, the workflow 
is to create a very, very intricate directory hierarchy skeleton, so that 
it's clear to everyone where everything goes and how it is organized, even 
before any work is started.

Just adding my 2 cents: my first clash with Git's non-management of
empty directories was a combination of both. A colleague created an
SVN project with several empty directories, along the lines of "Here
it is. Now, put your stuff in there".

git-svn didn't import these empty directories (I think I actually
could have worked around this with "git svn mkdirs"). Adding
.gitignore files would have been a really dirty workaround since I
didn't want to put Git stuff in the SVN repo.

I don't think my colleague did anything wrong, I did want to use Git,
and that was still frustrating to see such a simple scenario not
managed by my favorite tool.

So, yes, I can clearly leave without empty directory support, but that
would be a nice addition to Git.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/