From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Jarosch Subject: Re: git-svn and empty directories Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:58:55 +0100 Organization: Intra2net AG Message-ID: <200812220958.55614.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> References: <200812161353.49796.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> <20081221070854.GA22014@hand.yhbt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Deskin Miller , git@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Wong X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 22 10:01:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LEgfU-00019A-OQ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:01:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753171AbYLVI67 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:58:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753310AbYLVI67 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:58:59 -0500 Received: from rs02.intra2net.com ([81.169.173.116]:50792 "EHLO rs02.intra2net.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751721AbYLVI67 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:58:59 -0500 Received: from intranator.m.i2n (unknown [172.16.1.99]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rs02.intra2net.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5141D3E5E; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:58:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (intranator.m.i2n [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB592AC4B; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:58:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from storm.localnet (storm.m.i2n [172.16.1.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by intranator.m.i2n (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91052AC4A; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:58:55 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20081221070854.GA22014@hand.yhbt.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by Intranator (www.intranator.com) with AMaViS and F-Secure AntiVirus (fsavdb 2008-12-22_04) X-Spam-Status: hits=-2.9 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8,BAYES_05=-1.11] X-Spam-Level: 971 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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