[Users] Meeting Minutes

Roland Haas rhaas at tapir.caltech.edu
Mon Aug 12 17:08:55 CDT 2013


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Hello Frank,

> Maybe unrelated: but I just tried to add an empty directory to git,
> and to my surprise find that this doesn't seem to be possible? One
> of my motivations to switch from CVS to Subversion was that it
> enabled me to delete empty directories. And now I cannot add them
> with Git - or is there some way to do it?
You cannot have empty folders (or empty files) in git. The issue is
that git tracks content not files. So an empty folder does not exist
as far as Git is concerned.

See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/115983/how-do-i-add-an-empty-directory-to-a-git-repository

Yours,
Roland

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