From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Re: Empty directories...
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:55:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85wswvty8u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LFD.0.999.0707191930030.27249@woody.linux-foundation.org
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> But you _could_ treat that "should-be-kept-even-when-empty"-ness
>> just like we treat executable bit on blobs, I think.
>
> True. Or you could make it a path attribute and/or a per-repository
> decision, so that while the data wouldn't necessarily be in the
> database itself, the user could specify the behaviour he wanted.
No, one can't. Once can decide per repository whether one wants to
permit this kind of information in. But if one does, the information
needs to there for _every_ tree. And a "." entry is a natural and
intuitive way to do that. "." has been used as a directory entry for
decades in Unix.
>> This will involve a lot of changes, so I would not recommend
>> anybody doing so, though.
>
> Agreed. The upside just isn't there.
It is a good thing that you did not design the Unix file systems.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-20 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 137+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-18 0:13 Empty directories David Kastrup
2007-07-18 0:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-18 6:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 10:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <86tzs2m1h7.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-18 11:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-18 11:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-18 12:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 17:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 16:39 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-18 17:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 21:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 21:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 23:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 23:16 ` [RFC PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 23:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 5:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19 5:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-19 6:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 7:10 ` Geoff Russell
2007-07-19 6:09 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-19 8:13 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-19 10:51 ` Tomash Brechko
2007-07-19 11:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 12:32 ` Tomash Brechko
2007-07-19 12:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 20:18 ` Nix
2007-07-23 20:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 21:49 ` Nix
2007-07-23 22:05 ` Nix
2007-07-23 22:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-25 22:43 ` Nix
2007-07-23 22:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 22:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 23:32 ` Nix
2007-07-23 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <86ps2ithyl.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-24 6:56 ` Nix
2007-07-19 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 13:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 12:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 12:24 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 14:44 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-19 15:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 16:06 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-19 16:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 16:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 16:34 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-19 17:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.070719 1829530.14781@racer.site>
2007-07-19 17:47 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 16:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-19 16:21 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <9436820E-53D1-425D-922E-D4C76578E40A@silverinsanity.com>
[not found] ` <863azk78yp.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-19 15:08 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-19 15:27 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 15:50 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-20 0:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 2:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 5:55 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-07-20 5:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 15:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 5:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 9:27 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-20 10:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 10:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 13:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 21:02 ` Johan Herland
2007-07-20 21:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 22:36 ` Julian Phillips
2007-07-21 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 1:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 3:54 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <7vir8f24o2.fsf@assigned -by-dhcp.cox.net>
2007-07-20 5:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 10:19 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-07-19 5:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-19 9:54 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?alpine.LFD.0.999?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?.070718=041710271.?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?27353@woody.linu?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?x-foundation.org?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?>
2007-07-22 21:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 4:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 4:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 5:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 5:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 17:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 17:52 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-21 18:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-21 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 0:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 1:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 1:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 2:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 3:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 4:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 6:38 ` david
2007-07-22 9:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 17:59 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-22 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <alpine.L FD.0.999.0707221031050.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 18:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 1:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-22 1:39 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 12:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-22 13:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 20:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-22 22:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 6:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-23 7:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 0:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 4:00 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-07-28 8:44 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?alpine.LFD.0.999?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?.07072=0402135450.?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?27249@woody.linu?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?x-foundation.org?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?>
2007-07-21 5:15 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 17:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 0:39 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-18 6:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 6:30 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-18 2:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-18 5:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 6:34 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-18 6:53 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <867ioyqhgc.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-18 23:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 8:29 ` Johan Herland
2007-07-20 8:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 10:20 ` Johan Herland
2007-07-20 10:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-20 12:18 ` Johan Herland
[not found] ` <86odi7utdj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-07-20 13:20 ` Johan Herland
2007-07-20 13:33 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-22 21:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-26 23:33 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-27 5:22 ` David Kastrup
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