On Thursday, 26 April 2007, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> I'd like have a wish added ("support empty directories") to the
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Wishlist
> git wish page.
First of all, from the http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq
Q. Can I add empty directories?
A. No, git only cares about files, or rather git tracks content and
empty directories have no content.
Directories are added automatically when adding files inside them.
That is, directories never have to be added to the repository, and
are not tracked on their own.
Though you can say "git add <dir>" and it will add files in there.
If you really need a directory to exist in checkouts, you should
create a file in it. .gitignore works well for this purpose; you can
leave it empty, or fill in the names of files you expect to show up
in the directory.
> What do I need to have it added?
>
> Do I just wiki-edit this page and add a wish?
That is idea of wiki, that anybody can easily edit page.
> Or I email the maintainer of the wiki site ? J.Hamano told me to
> talk to the "maintainer". I think you are maintainer, no ?
There was some talk about having TODO / Wishlist maintainer on git
mailing list; somebody who would watch git mailing list (or read
archives), and optionally #git IRC channel on FreeNode (or browse
archives), add entries to it, and remove implemented (or move to
"Granted wishes" section). Currently there is no such person; I am
not Wishlist wiki page maintainer.
The http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/Wishlist page was created by Andy Parkins,
with some items tongue-in-cheek.
IIRC the admin of GitWiki is Petr "Pasky" Baudis; he has admin
privileges like ability to delete a page, or rename a page, or add
extension to MoinMoin wiki engine. But he doesn't do much (besides
providing us with the GitWiki; thanks a lot, pasky), certainly
he do not maintain, nor watch, any wiki page.
I have sent from time to time "[RFC] gitweb wishlist and TODO list"
message to git mailing list, to ask for ideas to implement, and which
ideas implement first.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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