From: Abscissa <bus_nabble_git@semitwist.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SVN -> Git *but* with special changes
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:03:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317233025014-6841234.post@n2.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16808473.33899.1317229852319.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
>> 1. Directories can exist even if there's nothing in them (just like
>> any filesystem).
>
>What requires the empty directories to exist? The build system?
Yes.
>Can you just let them go away in Git and fix it downstream in the user's
working copy?
That won't work retroactively for already-existing revisions. I'd rather not
break the build system for older revisions just for such a goofy reason as
empty dirs being deemed unnecessary.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-28 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-28 16:37 SVN -> Git *but* with special changes Abscissa
2011-09-28 17:10 ` Stephen Bash
2011-09-28 17:44 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-09-28 19:07 ` Jeff King
2011-09-28 18:03 ` Abscissa [this message]
2012-01-07 22:30 ` Abscissa
2011-09-28 19:04 ` Jeff King
2012-01-08 5:03 ` Abscissa
2012-01-08 5:10 ` Jeff King
2012-01-08 5:17 ` Abscissa
2012-01-08 5:25 ` Abscissa
2012-01-08 10:33 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-01-08 10:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-01-08 12:08 ` Adam Borowski
2012-01-08 22:28 ` Abscissa
2012-01-08 23:38 ` Abscissa
2012-01-12 21:52 ` Abscissa
2012-01-14 3:43 ` Abscissa
2012-01-09 8:26 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-01-08 11:24 ` Thomas Hochstein
2012-01-08 11:20 ` Thomas Hochstein
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