Let's fix this now. Here is a one-line fix, which is simpler and cleaner than
a multi-empty-file commit. My old fix mkdir -p `lib/emptydirs` is a bashism I
think, I've reworded it:
xargs mkdir -p lib/emptydirs
That will suffice to fix the problem for unix users at least. xargs might not
be
2009/10/2 Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net:
could be removed if anyone fixes hg.
from the way the mercurial guys go on about it,
it sounds like the fix might not be trivial.
it does seem like a ridiculous thing, but it
seems to be something of a religious issue with them.
hg doesn't do permissions
it does seem like a ridiculous thing, but it
seems to be something of a religious issue with them.
that was my impression. we aren't the only ones to find
the restriction irksome, by any means. to avoid this
intransigence spreading, i should say that we'll compensate
for it somehow. i agree with
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:44 AM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/2 Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net:
could be removed if anyone fixes hg.
from the way the mercurial guys go on about it,
it sounds like the fix might not be trivial.
it does seem like a ridiculous thing, but it
seems
It's a bit sad when a modern OS (inferno) from one of the best labs in the
world does not build (from hg), due to a error that could be avoided with a
tiny patch. You are losing new users because of this (or aggrevating them).
Why not commit the list of empty directories and add mkdir -p
committing a .emptydir file in each directory would be easier.
why bother making it .emptydir (ie, with the dot) when that makes it
invisible on broken host systems (with the ls bug) but visible under inferno
itself.
more important, and the reason i didn't do that,
if it's visible under inferno
On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote:
committing a .emptydir file in each directory would be easier.
why bother making it .emptydir (ie, with the dot) when that makes it
invisible on broken host systems (with the ls bug) but visible under
inferno itself.
more important, and
Perhaps a rule in the mkfile which would check/create empty directories?
perhaps. there are several alternatives, and no doubt i'll switch
to use a mix as appropriate. the annoying thing is that
previously, whether through tar, replica, or even subversion, a suitable
skeleton would appear without
