From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Cc: Ralf Nyren <ralf.nyren@ericsson.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange effect merging empty file
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:17:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86iphwomnq.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F69B375.5050205@in.waw.pl> ("Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek"'s message of "Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:54:45 +0100")
>>>>> "Zbigniew" == Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> writes:
Zbigniew> touch .gitignore
If you're doing this to make sure git makes an empty directory, always
put the directory name in there as a comment... that makes it (a) not an
empty file (so merge doesn't get confused) and (b) unique, so when you
change it, merge won't try to change other similar empty files.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-22 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-21 10:28 Strange effect merging empty file Ralf Nyren
2012-03-21 10:54 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-21 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 12:17 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2012-03-22 12:39 ` Ralf Nyren
2012-03-22 12:47 ` Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2012-03-22 14:01 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 17:59 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:25 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:52 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] drop casts from users EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] make is_empty_blob_sha1 available everywhere Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] merge-recursive: don't detect renames from empty files Jeff King
2012-03-22 19:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-22 21:53 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 18:52 ` Strange effect merging empty file Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 19:03 ` Jeff King
2012-03-22 19:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-22 22:46 ` [PATCH 0/2] merging renames of empty files Jeff King
2012-03-22 22:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] teach diffcore-rename to optionally ignore empty content Jeff King
2012-03-22 22:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] merge-recursive: don't detect renames of empty files Jeff King
2012-03-22 23:37 ` [PATCH 0/2] merging " Junio C Hamano
2012-03-23 0:23 ` Jeff King
2012-03-23 4:56 ` Junio C Hamano
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