Re: [1.8.0] Tracking empty directories

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Thomas Koch [off-list ref] wrote:

Jakub Narebski:

quoted

there is (supposedly) problem when checking out such tree (see email
referenced above) with an old git.

Proposal:

(Elaborate the "handle" part from your first item)

- Teach diff machinery about empty trees. At least diff-tree should
show empty tree addition/removal. diff-index and diff-files can learn
later when index supports empty trees.

- Teach merge empty trees.

- Implement the possibility to checkout/read/handle empty directories as soon
as possible, even in the next 1.7.x release.
- Don't implement the possibility to create/commit empty directories yet.
- Implement the possibility to checkin empty directories next year, but allow
it only, if the user knows that this breaks backwards compatibility of the
repo. (Generate warning and require --commit-empty-directories option)

-- 
Duy