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From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@digium.com>
Subject: Re: Tracking empty directories
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:31:38 -0600
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On 02/01/2011 09:54 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Jakub Narebski<jnareb@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> To add, one would use "git update-index --add".
>>
>> Porcelain version could be "git add -N<directory>", don't you agree?
>
> "git add" is recursive, with or without -N. What I worry is user
> accidentally "git add -N<dir>" where<dir>  is not empty, which adds
> everything in<dir>.
>
>>> The magic disappears when you register a file within that directory;
>>> to tell git you want to keep it, one would mkdir and
>>> "git update-index --add" again.  Once it's working, we can think about
>>> if there is a need for making that last step automatic after all
>>> (my guess: "no"). ;-)
>>
>> Hmmm... could we use mechanism similar to assume-unchanged to mark
>> directory as explicitely tracked, and that git should not remove it
>> when it becomes empty?
>
> I think git-attr suits better, more persistent. Although if you insist
> the directory must stay, why not just put a hidden file in there?

That's what I do now... in fact, since the empty directory needs to 
exist in checkouts *and* be empty, adding a .gitignore file with content 
'*' works quite well.

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