Thanks Jeff, the confirmation of git rm -r --cached dir was exactly what i needed!
On Jul 31, 7:57 am, Jeffrey <[email protected]> wrote: > All of the inner workings aside, you can see what I meant by a simple > test: try to add an empty folder to a git repo. There will be no > changes to commit. This is what I mean by not tracking directories - > there is no way to tell it to track a directory which does not > actually contain any content. While it is of course aware of > directories, they are part of the path to the content it tracks, not > content tracked in and of themselves. > > Jeffrey > > On Jul 30, 9:21 am, Rick DeNatale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Jeffrey<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Git doesn't really track folders - it just tracks files. > > > If I understand it correctly, git DOES track folders/directories. In > > most operating systems, directories are really just special files > > containing pointers to and meta-information about other files. Git can > > be understood as a special kind of file system which keeps the history > > of it's contents, and not just the current contents. > > > Git uses three type of objects, blobs, trees, and commits all of which > > are identified by the SHA1 hash of their contents, which are used as a > > kind of pointer value. > > > Blobs represent the leaf files, at some point in time. > > Trees represent a directory at some point in time, they contain a list > > of the SHA1 pointer to each blob or tree (subdirectory) in the > > directory, along with its file name, and mode. > > Commits point to a particular tree, and to 0 or more parent commits. > > > What git doesn't do is track files OR directories directly by name. > > > -- > > Rick DeNatale > > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > > Twitter:http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale > > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
