From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: git wish page Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:26:00 +0100 Message-ID: <200704271626.07562.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200704271650.27923.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jakub Narebski , "Yakov Lerner" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 27 17:26:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HhSL9-000336-Ub for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:26:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755918AbXD0P0W (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:26:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755951AbXD0P0W (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:26:22 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:54568 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755918AbXD0P0U (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:26:20 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so838329uga for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:26:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=jM+mql2MHrllGWaDpvrU8pcY1svxKQWTKJLV21GuICvsXN3F/qhlDxWigJJ/+al5Ez3k+fFfbEJr3RyuC3wGNhm5qhTPIAAkhjMBTLnuJeSWOAln6ZTvQcp2bAfPsAQy464t5LBQLhhU92AV71x7waI1uboV9CXhlWnlrS5cIqE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=QEsAFYUvgww3+YCfhR8cBSS8VJos1NTAMWNV0mdowbRFJveC3Ta9zstnSgCYT+Q94TXGfH2Kt/8Ou87PjPxRKJuNFj4Hq3jxtj+4cpx25Ub1lBkXc9XJglDPb18I4cL+XCGxx1VhIPSyZVFG2Dbm7xX0707Q/HsMJy04ij8uX4U= Received: by 10.82.152.16 with SMTP id z16mr5971705bud.1177687578930; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z34sm395384ikz.2007.04.27.08.26.14; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:26:17 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <200704271650.27923.jnareb@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Friday 2007 April 27, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Q. Can I add empty directories? > > A. No, git only cares about files, or rather git tracks content and > empty directories have no content. I don't object to git not tracking directories, but that's not a good justification for why git doesn't. git will happily track an empty file and that has no content. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com