From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: "Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: empty directories
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:40:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070821134030.b763e9d3.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187716461.5986.71.camel@beauty>
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:14:21 -0600
"Josh England" <jjengla@sandia.gov> wrote:
> Git doesn't seem to allow me to add an empty directory to the index, or
> even nested empty directories. Is there any way to do this? What is
> the reasoning? I've got a use case where having empty directories in my
> git repository would be *very* valuable. Any information and help is
> greatly appreciated.
Hi Josh,
Git doesn't track empty directories. There is a brief note about it in
the FAQ:
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-1fbd4a018d45259c197b169e87dafce2a3c6b5f9
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 17:14 empty directories Josh England
2007-08-21 17:40 ` Sean [this message]
2007-08-22 21:25 ` Josh England
2007-08-22 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-22 23:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-23 15:24 ` Josh England
2007-08-23 21:51 ` tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories] Josh England
2007-08-23 22:08 ` tracking perms/ownership Junio C Hamano
2007-08-23 23:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 6:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-24 6:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 7:38 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 7:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-24 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 18:15 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 18:56 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-24 21:26 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 19:33 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-08-24 21:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-24 7:22 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 7:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-24 8:19 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 16:11 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 16:27 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 9:38 ` tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories] Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 9:52 ` Jeff King
2007-08-24 15:50 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 20:58 ` Jeff King
2007-08-25 14:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-25 14:46 ` tracking perms/ownership Junio C Hamano
2007-08-25 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-24 10:05 ` tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories] Jeff King
2007-08-25 14:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 17:10 ` empty directories Jason Garber
2007-08-22 23:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-22 0:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-22 4:31 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-08-22 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-22 19:12 ` David Kastrup
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-15 21:20 Empty Directories Trans
2008-08-15 21:42 ` Marcus Griep
2008-08-15 21:46 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-16 1:53 ` Paul Franz
2007-07-18 0:13 Empty directories David Kastrup
2007-07-18 0:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-18 6:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 10:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <86tzs2m1h7.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-18 11:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-18 11:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-18 12:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 17:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 16:39 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-18 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 21:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 23:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 17:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 0:39 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-18 6:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 6:30 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-18 2:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-18 5:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 6:34 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-18 6:53 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <867ioyqhgc.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-18 23:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 8:29 ` Johan Herland
2007-07-20 8:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 10:20 ` Johan Herland
2007-07-20 10:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 12:18 ` Johan Herland
[not found] ` <86odi7utdj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-20 13:20 ` Johan Herland
2007-07-20 13:33 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-26 23:33 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-27 5:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-04-23 15:40 empty directories Yakov Lerner
2007-04-23 16:19 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-23 16:49 ` Yakov Lerner
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