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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:30:31 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> On Jul 19, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > Alas, we already have such a marker.  It is called ".gitignore", and has
> > been ignored by _you_.  There is _nothing_ wrong, from a technical
> > standpoint, to call this marker ".gitignore", and it is _also_ not wrong
> > to put this marker into the file system _in addition_ to the index.
> > 
> > So go and add your directories via that marker, and _be done with it_.
> 
> But this alters the content of the directory away from what I want it to be,
> namely empty.  You aren't addressing the concept of tracking an empty
> directory, you're just saying you won't do it.

OMG last time I checked, my _empty_ directory contained "." and "..".  
What do I do now?

Really,
Dscho