From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Abscissa Subject: Re: SVN -> Git *but* with special changes Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1317233025014-6841234.post@n2.nabble.com> References: <1317227849979-6840904.post@n2.nabble.com> <16808473.33899.1317229852319.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 28 20:03:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8yU6-0006T9-DW for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:03:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753770Ab1I1SDu (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:03:50 -0400 Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:33955 "EHLO sam.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753482Ab1I1SDt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:03:49 -0400 Received: from jim.nabble.com ([192.168.236.80]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R8yTx-00056t-0h for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:03:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: <16808473.33899.1317229852319.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >> 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. -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/SVN-Git-but-with-special-changes-tp6840904p6841234.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.