I think you will not be able make git to do it. Git tracks content not files and folders and it will not delete folder. You can use post- checkout hook to do that for you.
Regards, Bosko On Mar 28, 1:03 pm, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > This is really a git question but the problem is with rails using git and > others may have come across the problem. > > I have a branch on my application's git repository with edge rails as a > subproject checked out into vendor/rails. this allows me to keep my > application edge-compliant by checking out the branch (which creates the > rails folder in vendor), pulling the latest edge rails and running my > tests. This works fine. > > The problem comes when I checkout the master again (which does not have a > vendor/rails folder). Git removes the contents of vendor/rails but leaves an > empty rails folder. The application will not run, the empty rails folder > confuses it, so I have to manually delete the folder. Obviously I can have > a simple script to solve the problem but I wonder if there is a way of > telling git to remove the empty folder. Or perhaps there is an alternative. > I have googled in vain. > > Any ideas? > > Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
