On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Michel Jouvin <jouvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running in a problem when trying to fetch a SVN repository branch that > contains an empty directory with a SVN property svn:externals attached. This > directory is missing in the Git repository/checkout. I was unable to find an > option to have it added. I'd like to get it added to readd the externals using > the trick described in http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/5/1/245002. > Without it, I have to recreate it in git, add it to .gitignore... which is > painful. > > BTW, I didn't find any documentation on empty dirs handling by git-svn. They > seems to be often removed which is not always desirable. Are they options > related to this? > I don't think this is git-svn's fault, but simply that git doesn't track directories (just files). I guess git-svn could create some sort of place-holder files in empty folders, but currently it doesn't AFAIK. -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html