Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Eric, and list, > > Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I think that presently git-svn does not create empty dirs when pulling > >> from svn. It would be nice to have such directories created since > >> some projects will expect the empty dir to be there (no need to track > >> it in git, IMO). > > > > Git itself cannot easily track empty directories (at least as far as > > update-index and checkout) goes. > > > > What I *can* do is run mktree and to force the creation of tree objects > > with a 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 (empty) sub tree and run > > commit-tree on it, but checkout/checkout-index would still need to be > > modified to support it. > > > > Is that something the git community wants? > > I recently encountered a situation where code wasn't working for me > because git-svn didn't create an empty dir that is present in svn. > > I'm not trying to argue for the sense/anti-sense of tracking empty > dirs in an scm, but I think this is an issue worth addressing in some > fashion. Here's why. > > I think there are many potential git users out there who are currently > svn users. And git-svn is a really nice way to get started, but this > sort of stumbling block could really turn people off. For example, it > made me look pretty dumb when I carelessly complained to my colleague > about his code not working and then it turns out to be because my > super-advanced scm tool "messed things up". > > One simple thing (I think it would be simple) is that git-svn could > issue a loud warning when it encounters an empty directory that it is > going to ignore. > > I don't understand the implications adding the tracking of empty dirs > to git. I suspect it has been discussed before, but haven't yet gone > fishing in the list archives. I imagine it would make the argument > easier for folks wanting to switch a project from svn to git if this > wasn't one of the differences. For good or bad, I've often heard this > svn feature as a motivator to switch from cvs. I agree that missing empty directories when tracking foreign SVN repos is annoying. I've looked into this a bit more; but ended up trying to reinvent the index :x Since git-svn misses some other stuff (many property settings, externals) I'll be working on an internal logging format that can help track those things. It'd be nice to have a command like git svn checkout which works like git checkout; but empty directories are created. -- Eric Wong - 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