From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories... Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <858x9ez1li.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85644hxujp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85abttwa7m.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7vbqe93qtv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20070719053858.GE32566@spearce.org> <9436820E-53D1-425D-922E-D4C76578E40A@silverinsanity.com> <863azk78yp.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <7vk5sw2ba7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vir8f24o2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: Brian Gernhardt , David Kastrup , "Shawn O.Pearce" , Matthieu Moy , Johannes Schindelin , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 20 04:42:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBiRc-0006yX-Kz for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:42:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753025AbXGTCmN (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:42:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752997AbXGTCmN (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:42:13 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:58313 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751728AbXGTCmM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:42:12 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l6K2VoPZ032285 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:31:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l6K2Vi6N002932; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:31:44 -0700 In-Reply-To: <7vir8f24o2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.199 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_HEADER_SUBJECT_BRACKETED X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.12__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.181 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > But you _could_ treat that "should-be-kept-even-when-empty"-ness > just like we treat executable bit on blobs, I think. True. Or you could make it a path attribute and/or a per-repository decision, so that while the data wouldn't necessarily be in the database itself, the user could specify the behaviour he wanted. > This will involve a lot of changes, so I would not recommend > anybody doing so, though. Agreed. The upside just isn't there. Linus