Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-svn: New flag to add a file in empty directories

[Ray Chen <rchen@cs.umd.edu>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>>
>> I strongly believe git-svn should leave no trace.  Nobody but the user
>> using git-svn should know they're using git-svn to interact with an SVN
>> repo.  This allows users to stay under the radar of any idiotic rules
>> (or knee-jerk reactions of FUD) their organization may have against
>> using non-standard SVN clients.  So far, it's worked out pretty well,
>> git-svn users slowly and quietly develop clout and influence to migrate
>> their repos from SVN to git.
>
> git-svn's maintenance of these files would be simpler if we used a
> special file for that, say .git-svn-empty-dir, and teach dcommit to
> ignore it. That way git clones can share it and git svn dcommit is
> unimpaired. The only problem occurs when a new git-svn commits these,
> and old git clones that and an old git-svn dcommits from that clone.
>

I'll let people more experienced than I come to a conclusion on this one.

I can say I'm loath to spend a lot of time on this, given that it
might all be replaced within two months by Dmitry Ivankov's GSoC
project.

- Ray