On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 07:07:47AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > For each of these exceptional commits a converter to Git has a choice > of dropping the commit, turning it into some sort of annotated tag, or > leaving it in place as a zero-op commit (anomalous but not forbidden > in the git model).
Or doing what everyone else does: put an empty .gitignore file in otherwise empty directories. This is safe even if your conversion creates such files from metadata (why on earth would you do that?!) Segher
