Apologies to those who were CC'd on the original message, I'm resending to this list as I forgot to set plain text. I've always wondered about that. Why do we still have this restriction? There is a sha1 hash that is equivalent to the empty tree (4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904). Why can't git just use that to represent an empty directory? I imagine things that touch the working copy may need to be updated to be aware of this, but the problem doesn't seem insurmountable. -Kevin Ballard On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > You can't have empty directories in git. -- 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