From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B203FC432BE for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829A460EB3 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231532AbhH1FoP (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2021 01:44:15 -0400 Received: from shell1.rawbw.com ([198.144.192.42]:45418 "EHLO shell1.rawbw.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229555AbhH1FoP (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2021 01:44:15 -0400 Received: from yv.noip.me (c-73-189-35-76.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.189.35.76]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell1.rawbw.com (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id 17S5hLLk030473 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.rawbw.com: Host c-73-189-35-76.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.189.35.76] claimed to be yv.noip.me Subject: Re: Git re-creates newly added directory when it is pushed To: Elijah Newren Cc: Git Mailing List References: From: Yuri Message-ID: <2a7fab29-e7c4-7c23-5932-80c403a37cce@rawbw.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:43:19 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 8/27/21 10:33 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > And I think you left out that you cd'ed into the directory as well > before running your `git pull --rebase`. Yes, this is how people normally work with this repository. They change individual directories (ports are like sub-projects) and commit them while staying in them. Yuri