From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: empty directories
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:06:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fafumf$fb4$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1187716461.5986.71.camel@beauty
Josh England wrote:
> Git doesn't seem to allow me to add an empty directory to the index, or
> even nested empty directories. Is there any way to do this? What is
> the reasoning? I've got a use case where having empty directories in my
> git repository would be *very* valuable. Any information and help is
> greatly appreciated.
Git does not track empty directories [yet], but you can use empty .gitignore
file trick to mark "empty" directories to be added.
There were some discussion about this on git mailing list (see archives),
and this issue is most probably mentioned on GitFaq page in git wiki.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2007-08-23 21:51 ` tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories] Josh England
2007-08-23 22:08 ` tracking perms/ownership Junio C Hamano
2007-08-23 23:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 6:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-24 6:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 7:38 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 7:50 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-24 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 18:15 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-24 18:56 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-24 21:26 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 19:33 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-08-24 21:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-24 7:22 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 7:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-24 8:19 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 16:11 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 16:27 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 9:38 ` tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories] Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 9:52 ` Jeff King
2007-08-24 15:50 ` Josh England
2007-08-24 20:58 ` Jeff King
2007-08-25 14:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-25 14:46 ` tracking perms/ownership Junio C Hamano
2007-08-25 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-24 10:05 ` tracking perms/ownership [was: empty directories] Jeff King
2007-08-25 14:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-24 17:10 ` empty directories Jason Garber
2007-08-22 23:40 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-22 0:06 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-08-22 4:31 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-08-22 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-22 19:12 ` 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
2007-07-18 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
2007-07-18 21:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 23:13 ` 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
2007-04-23 15:40 empty directories Yakov Lerner
2007-04-23 16:19 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-23 16:49 ` Yakov Lerner
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