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From: "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: why still no empty directory support in git
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Robin Rosenberg
<robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:

> You can have an empty tree, but the index doesn't store them,
> so they would be lost on checkout/commit. Linus sketched a solution,
> but nobody took the bait. Seems doable if anyone really wants it, but
> I'm certain it adds a lot of special cases.
>
> Look for a discussion [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories... posted on 2007-07-19.
> It's in the middle of a long thread.
>
Thanks for pointing me to that thread. For other's convenience, the
begin of the thread is
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/52813