From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carl Baldwin Subject: Re: Add an empty directory? Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:19:45 -0600 Organization: Hewlett Packard Message-ID: <20050813181945.GA2191@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> References: <20050813173043.GA25013@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> <20050813180008.GJ5608@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Carl Baldwin , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 13 20:20:57 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E40cd-0000Ps-N8 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 20:20:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932237AbVHMSTw (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:19:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932238AbVHMSTw (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:19:52 -0400 Received: from atlrel9.hp.com ([156.153.255.214]:31410 "EHLO atlrel9.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932237AbVHMSTv (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:19:51 -0400 Received: from smtp1.fc.hp.com (smtp.fc.hp.com [15.11.136.119]) by atlrel9.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29540B6EC; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com (hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com [15.6.94.42]) by smtp1.fc.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8851386F6; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com (Postfix, from userid 21523) id B6B6B2AF12; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:19:45 -0600 (MDT) To: Petr Baudis Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050813180008.GJ5608@pasky.ji.cz> X-Origin: hpescnb.fc.hp.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 08:00:08PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > the object databases supports it, but the index file does not. But yes, > it should be supported, I think. > > Some argue that this is useless, so some practical example of its > usefulness might be a good motivation to get us going. :-) That's fair. So, here goes. I don't particularly condone nor condemn any of these. - Just yesterday, I was starting a project at work. I wanted to add a doc directory as a reminder to add documentation very soon. I could not do this. - I've worked with projects that use an obj, .obj, .obj-platform or something resembling this and have checked in this directory to make sure it exists for all. Of course, a build system could be made to generate this directory when needed avoiding the need to check it in. - A common practice I've seen with autotools is to use a config subdirectory for many of the autogenerated scripts. If I'm not mistaken older versions would not create this directory if it did not already exist. Checking it in was a convenience. The bottom line is that I don't really see many situations where it is absolutely necessary but it is a convenience. Not supporting it may seem like an artificial limit that really didn't need to be there. I'll read up on the index file when I get the chance. Cheers, Carl -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Carl Baldwin Systems VLSI Laboratory Hewlett Packard Company MS 88 work: 970 898-1523 3404 E. Harmony Rd. work: Carl.N.Baldwin@hp.com Fort Collins, CO 80525 home: Carl@ecBaldwin.net - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -