On 11/08/2016 02:30 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
I describe git not as a vcs but as exacly what Linus Torvalds described it when he first presented it the Kernel mailing list: a directory content state recorder optimized for text files.
...that's incapable of comprehending the concept of empty directories, contrary to every major file system in use.
I never bought the argument about "b/c it tracks content, not files". If that really did explain the limitation, then it wouldn't be capable of handling empty *files* either, and yet it does.
