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Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-new-workdir: Don't fail if the target directory is empty
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:15:06 -0800
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Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> writes:

> Getting rid of ls/wc was not as simple as I'd hoped,

I didn't say ls/wc was not portable.  Assuming that a directory for
which the output from "ls -a" has two entries is empty may be.