Re: [PATCH 1.2/2 (fixed)] git-svn: fix output reporting from the delta fetcher

Seth Falcon [off-list ref] wrote:

Pazu [off-list ref] writes:

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Notice that there's no "CamelEar" directory. For some reason, it
wasn't fetched in the initial revision. Now, just to make sure this
isn't svn fault:

mini:~/devel/camel-git pazu$ svn ls -r11143
https://tech.bga.bunge.com/BungeHomeExt/GLS/trunk/java/bg-cam
.cvsignore
BungeIntegrationEar/
BungeIntegrationService/
BungeIntegrationServiceClient/
CamelEar/

Is CamelEar an empty directory (or was it an empty directory in the
first fetch) by any chance?

I think that presently git-svn does not create empty dirs when pulling
from svn.  It would be nice to have such directories created since
some projects will expect the empty dir to be there (no need to track
it in git, IMO).

Git itself cannot easily track empty directories (at least as far as
update-index and checkout) goes.

What I *can* do is run mktree and to force the creation of tree objects
with a 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 (empty) sub tree and run
commit-tree on it, but checkout/checkout-index would still need to be
modified to support it.

Is that something the git community wants?

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