From: Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com>
To: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why still no empty directory support in git
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:09:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4959BB07.6000106@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320812291942y6aeec941k9394586621e9151b@mail.gmail.com>
Ping Yin wrote:
> Yes, i know this topic has been discussed for many times. However, i
> am still not clear about the real reason.
>
> So which is the reason?
>
> 1. it's by design, intentional
It's saied somewhere git is a "stupid content tracker", it cares file content
not file name, and empty directories will complicate the merge algorithm
unnecessarily.
> 2. unclear logic, for example, whether to remove the directory after
> the last file in it is deleted
> 3. hard work, no one has picked it yet
> 4. hardly done in current model
>
> Ping Yin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-30 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-30 3:42 why still no empty directory support in git Ping Yin
2008-12-30 5:10 ` Asheesh Laroia
2008-12-30 5:28 ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-12-30 6:58 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-12-30 7:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-30 15:36 ` Ping Yin
2008-12-30 6:25 ` Asheesh Laroia
2008-12-30 8:43 ` demerphq
2008-12-30 8:58 ` Asheesh Laroia
2008-12-31 1:06 ` David Brown
2009-01-01 20:06 ` Jeff King
2009-01-02 18:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-02 21:31 ` Asheesh Laroia
2009-01-08 7:12 ` Asheesh Laroia
2008-12-30 6:09 ` Liu Yubao [this message]
2009-01-01 2:50 ` Anatol Pomozov
2008-12-30 12:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-12-30 14:21 ` Michael Gaber
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