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From: Brett Trotter <btrotter1389@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Feature Request: existence-only tracking
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 12:01:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADo3Y7QDuDLScdzcsS60d0fwQBT+=Va1s+v3OsSw5CBcEDbUFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

In my work, we have a lot of autogenerated files that need to exist so
a script will replace their contents, but tracking the contents
creates a lot of unnecessary conflicts. I would love to see an option
for a different tracking method that just makes sure a file or
directory exists. This would also obviate the need for adding things
like .empty files in a directory to force the directory to exist.

             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-23 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-23 17:01 Brett Trotter [this message]
2013-05-23 21:00 ` Feature Request: existence-only tracking Andreas Krey

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