Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have ideas about how to resolve those tricky corner cases, but not >> about what the UI should look like. ÂHow does one go about adding a >> directory? ÂDoes it ever get implicitly removed? > > I suppose a special command for it is appropriate (git-keepdir?). Many > index-related commands are recursive by default and hard to change. > > Yes I think it should be automatically removed from index when a file > is added inside tracked directories. Removing those files will also > remove the containing directory though. Okay, I'm convinced. This fits a "worse is better" point of view nicely. To add, one would use "git update-index --add". The magic disappears when you register a file within that directory; to tell git you want to keep it, one would mkdir and "git update-index --add" again. Once it's working, we can think about if there is a need for making that last step automatic after all (my guess: "no"). ;-) Use case: [1] Nice starting point: [2] Motivational word of wisdom: [3] This treatment leaves out the backward compatibility detail. I still think that's the easy part (at worst, we can always implement read support, wait a year, and then turn on write support). Jonathan [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/46947/focus=47278 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52813/focus=52908 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/53494 -- 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