On Apr 8, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Andrew Keller <and...@kellerfarm.com> wrote:
> 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. To clarify: That's Git's "personality" from the point of view of the front end, and is not the same as how data is actually stored. 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
