Dnia wtorek 1. lutego 2011 19:35, Jonathan Nieder napisaÅ: > 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". Porcelain version could be "git add -N <directory>", don't you agree? > 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"). ;-) Hmmm... could we use mechanism similar to assume-unchanged to mark directory as explicitely tracked, and that git should not remove it when it becomes empty? -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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