>> 1. Directories can exist even if there's nothing in them (just like >> any filesystem). > >What requires the empty directories to exist? The build system? Yes. >Can you just let them go away in Git and fix it downstream in the user's working copy? That won't work retroactively for already-existing revisions. I'd rather not break the build system for older revisions just for such a goofy reason as empty dirs being deemed unnecessary. -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/SVN-Git-but-with-special-changes-tp6840904p6841234.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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