On Apr 8, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Olivier LE ROY <olivier_le_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have a project under SVN with contains empty directories. > > I would like to move this project on a Git server, still handling empty > directories. > > The solution: put a .gitignore file in each empty directory to have them > recognized by the Git database cannot work, because some scripts in my > projects test the actual emptiness of the directories. > > Is there any expert able to tell me: this cannot be done in Git, or this can > be done by the following trick, or why there is no valuable reason to > maintain empty directories under version control? Git is designed to track files. The existence of folders is secondary to the notion that files have a relative path inside the repository, which is perceived by the user as folders. Why can't your scripts create the folders on demand? Or, could your scripts interpret a missing folder as an empty folder? Thanks, Andrew Keller -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
