From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git wish page Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:50:27 +0200 Message-ID: <200704271650.27923.jnareb@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Yakov Lerner" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 27 16:46:55 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 1HhRik-0003rt-Oi for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:46:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755913AbXD0Oqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:46:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755904AbXD0Oqf (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:46:35 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:2139 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755914AbXD0Oqd (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:46:33 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so830809uga for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:46:32 -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:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ZViWwaoRrTvs13KTodzQ+c7OGZ6bLsJBnVKg73WtG/8KG8ad86x+bgbl2igcQGf8+KnP3OQJCJX7yFlEu3sZMyyUDeECrCG4cZE5O3t8Ur3Xu8vH57uphcbtYtOng/EZ0cNQZzpq121KFhKz6q/3/FX1PN+TxU8/DRwER2YuVo0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=nkl25UAGhZnm0SxILjRBE5uZpyGWhfzAgTlQ7ENpqmeO9EH/Ea+LyE82zIyqWIfJcETSdQuKQZGH3Q9NVwiwywOo7qsn4xR2MoTiv2ivJf85+VHTkWS//YF/n6y1IXGA1tAp+QBxTntW5SKZMqiP9KIup89r1G7oAsa49EAp0QQ= Received: by 10.66.216.6 with SMTP id o6mr3050831ugg.1177685192535; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host-89-229-25-173.torun.mm.pl ( [89.229.25.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id x26sm5589638ugc.2007.04.27.07.46.30; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:46:31 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 " 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