From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: "Σταύρος Ντέντος" <stdedos@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git does not recognise directory named '${sys:DATA_ROOT_DIR}'
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:08:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa7bltcyu.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190903133422.GA51158@syl.lan> (Taylor Blau's message of "Tue, 3 Sep 2019 09:34:22 -0400")
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:
> If you wish to keep this directory "empty", but stored in Git, a common
> convention is to create an empty '.gitkeep' file in the directory. This
> file is not special in any way to Git, rather it serves as _a_ file to
> keep the directory non-empty.
Hmph, I thought the common convention was to create a ".gitignore"
file in the directory with catch-all pattern, so that no matter what
cruft you had there "git add" will not add anything from it, if you
wish to keep this directory "empty".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-03 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-03 12:44 Git does not recognise directory named '${sys:DATA_ROOT_DIR}' Σταύρος Ντέντος
2019-09-03 13:34 ` Taylor Blau
2019-09-03 14:11 ` Σταύρος Ντέντος
2019-09-03 16:45 ` Philip Oakley
2019-09-03 19:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-09-03 19:55 ` Σταύρος Ντέντος
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