From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn and empty directories
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:58:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812220958.55614.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081221070854.GA22014@hand.yhbt.net>
Hello Eric,
On Sunday, 21. December 2008 08:08:54 Eric Wong wrote:
> Modern git-svn never touches the working tree during fetch, it hashes
> objects into the database and adds those to the indexes directly.
Ok
> However, I don't think your proposal is a good idea since it adds too
> much "magic". Complex special cases for delta application if the
> .gitignore gets real content and backwards-incompatibility since I know
> some git-svn users already rely on pushing .gitignore files (empty or
> otherwise) to an upstream SVN repo.
>
> The minor problem of missing empty directories isn't big enough to be
> worth the trouble IMHO.
Ok, this seems to be too much effort to fix. I manually added the directories
to my HEAD version and really hope I don't have to ever checkout
and build something from the past *fingers crossed* :-)
Cheers,
Thomas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-22 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-16 12:53 git-svn and empty directories Thomas Jarosch
2008-12-21 7:08 ` Eric Wong
2008-12-22 8:58 ` Thomas Jarosch [this message]
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