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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: empty directories
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:19:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0704230919h3be7a67fqec431a6afb6e3760@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f36b08ee0704230840xa37e149qffa15c5c685524c4@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/23/07, Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I git-add empty directory (mkdir d1;git-add d1),
> git refuses to add it [1].
>
> I was told on #git chan that git cannot store empty dirs.

It can, just refuses to. Which considered good by most

> But when I do
>          git-add -f emptyDir # where emptyDir is empty dir
> , emptyDir is added and then cloned. What does it mean ?

$ git add -f emptyDir
fatal: unable to index file emptyDir

> Does it mean that if i git-add emptyDir with -f, it may break
> something in the repo ? That I shall not try it ? Or it is ok ?

It is not ok and it does not break anything. What git do you
have, as I apparently cannot reproduce it.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-23 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-23 15:40 empty directories Yakov Lerner
2007-04-23 16:19 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-04-23 16:49   ` Yakov Lerner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
2007-08-21 17:14 empty directories Josh England
2007-08-21 17:40 ` Sean
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
2007-08-24 17:10       ` 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
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

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