Re: [PATCH v2] git-svn: New flag to emulate empty directories

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Ray Chen <rchen <at> cs.umd.edu> writes:

> 
> Adds the --preserve-empty-dirs flag to the clone operation that will
> detect empty directories in the target Subversion repository and create
> placeholder files in the corresponding local Git directories.  This allows
> "empty" directories to exist in the history of a Git repository.
> 
> Also adds the --placeholder-file flag to control the name of any
> placeholder files created.  Default value is ".gitignore".
> 

Is there anything I can do to make this patch more palatable for inclusion?

It'd also be fine if this patch got left by the wayside.  I recognize that
cloning Subversion repositories with empty directories is something of a corner
case.

- Ray

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