Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Another issue I thought about was what you would do in the step > 3 in the following: > > 1. David says "mkdir D; git add D"; you add S_IFDIR entry in > the index at D; > > 2. David says "date >D/F; git add D/F"; presumably you drop D > from the index (to keep the index more backward compatible) > and add S_IFREG entry at D/F. > > 3. David says "git rm D/F". > > Have we stopped keeping track of the "empty directory" at this > point? Sadly yes. But I don't think that's what the folks who want to track empty directories want to have happen here. Which is why I'm thinking we just need to track the directory, as a node in the index, even if there are files in it, and even if we got that directory and its contained files there by just unpacking trees. -- Shawn. - 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
