On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > But you _could_ treat that "should-be-kept-even-when-empty"-ness > just like we treat executable bit on blobs, I think. True. Or you could make it a path attribute and/or a per-repository decision, so that while the data wouldn't necessarily be in the database itself, the user could specify the behaviour he wanted. > This will involve a lot of changes, so I would not recommend > anybody doing so, though. Agreed. The upside just isn't there. Linus - 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