I've run into this too. I don't think this needs to be documented, I think it needs to be *fixed* -- that is, the relevant ant tasks need to not assume these directories exist and create them if not.
~ David Smiley -----Original Message----- From: Lance Norskog [mailto:goks...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:14 PM To: solr-dev Subject: GIT does not support empty directories There are some empty directories in the Solr source tree, both in 1.4 and the trunk. example/work example/webapp example/logs Git does not support empty directories: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Can_I_add_empty_directories.3F And so, when you check out from the Apache GIT repository, these empty directories do not appear and 'ant example' and 'ant run-example' fail. There is no 'how to use the solr git stuff' wiki page; that seems like the right place to document this. I'm not git-smart enough to write that page. -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com