From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Empty directories...
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:06:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707181004330.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq4pk1vf7q.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
> If you checkout a branch, create an empty directory in this branch
> (probably a placeholder, either for future versionned files, or for
> generated files), you cannot tell git "this empty directory is in this
> branch, but not in other ones" without adding a file in it.
Right. Which is the suggested setup: add an empty ".gitignore" file to the
directory, and you're done. It now acts "as if" git tracked the directory
(git will remove the directory when switching branches), but without the
lie that we really track any directory contents.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-18 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 156+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2007-07-18 21:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 23:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 23:16 ` [RFC PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 23:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 5:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19 5:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-19 6:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 7:10 ` Geoff Russell
2007-07-19 6:09 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-19 8:13 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-19 10:51 ` Tomash Brechko
2007-07-19 11:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 12:32 ` Tomash Brechko
2007-07-19 12:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 20:18 ` Nix
2007-07-23 20:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 21:49 ` Nix
2007-07-23 22:05 ` Nix
2007-07-23 22:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-25 22:43 ` Nix
2007-07-23 22:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 22:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 23:32 ` Nix
2007-07-23 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <86ps2ithyl.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-24 6:56 ` Nix
2007-07-19 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 13:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 12:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 12:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 14:44 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-19 15:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 16:06 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-19 16:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 16:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 16:34 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-19 17:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.070719 1829530.14781@racer.site>
2007-07-19 17:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 16:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-19 16:21 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <9436820E-53D1-425D-922E-D4C76578E40A@silverinsanity.com>
[not found] ` <863azk78yp.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-19 15:08 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-19 15:27 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 15:50 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-20 0:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 2:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 5:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 5:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 15:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 5:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 9:27 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-20 10:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 10:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 13:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 21:02 ` Johan Herland
2007-07-20 21:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 22:36 ` Julian Phillips
2007-07-21 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 1:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 3:54 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <7vir8f24o2.fsf@assigned -by-dhcp.cox.net>
2007-07-20 5:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 10:19 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-07-19 5:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 9:54 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?alpine.LFD.0.999?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?.070718=041710271.?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?27353@woody.linu?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?x-foundation.org?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?>
2007-07-22 21:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 4:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 4:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 5:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 5:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 17:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 17:52 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-21 18:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 0:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 1:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 2:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 4:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 6:38 ` david
2007-07-22 9:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 17:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <alpine.L FD.0.999.0707221031050.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 18:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 1:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-22 1:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 12:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-22 13:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 20:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-22 22:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 6:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 7:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 0:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 4:00 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-28 8:44 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?alpine.LFD.0.999?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?.07072=0402135450.?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?27249@woody.linu?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?x-foundation.org?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?>
2007-07-21 5:15 ` 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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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
2007-04-23 15:40 Yakov Lerner
2007-04-23 16:19 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-23 16:49 ` Yakov Lerner
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