Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The reason would be closer to "there is a valuable reason, but not > valuable enough to change Git to do it". It's actually not so easy to > track directories properly. Storing them in the Git repository is > actually possible (actually, an empty tree is a special case of this, > and is obviously supported), but defining and implementing a decent > behavior for each Git command wrt this is not trivial. > > David Kastrup gave it a try a few years ago. I don't remember exactly > what made him give up, but it was never completed and merged. Oh, most likely what afflicts most of my unfinished projects. I lost focus at some point of time. I don't remember any fundamentally unsolvable problems, but then I don't remember much at all. There were some annoyances with sorting order (either regarding the sorting of xxx/ or . or ./ or whatever) and some other stuff. If anybody wants to take a look at the direction of unfinished stuff, I can see whether there are some old backups with git repos in my possession. But I really have no idea how much of the design might have ended up in actual comments or code, and how much on some scraps of paper or half-committed memory, and how much of that might have been invalidated by other scraps of paper and half-committed memory. So there is not likely to be more than food for thought recoverable. I'm amused that you remember me being involved with that. I think I myself had forgotten all about it until recently. I don't even recollect what made me remember again: looking at some old repo/commit or searching in some old mailing list archive. -- David Kastrup -- 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