On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Thomas Fischer wrote: > I agree that the entire chain of empty directories should not be > tracked, as git tracks content, not files. > > However, when I run 'rm path/to/some/file', I expect path/to/some/ > to still exist. why? > Similarly, when I run 'git rm path/to/some/file', I expect > path/to/some/ to exist, *albeit untracked*. again, why? > I do NOT expect git to *track* empty directories. But I also do NOT > expect it to remove untracked directories. why not? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================