Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> 
>> If you checkout a branch, create an empty directory in this branch
>> (probably a placeholder, either for future versionned files, or for
>> generated files), you cannot tell git "this empty directory is in this
>> branch, but not in other ones" without adding a file in it.
>
> Right. Which is the suggested setup: add an empty ".gitignore" file
> to the directory, and you're done.

That implies that every directory in a versioned tree will exclusively
be created under manual and conscious control.  Not by running some
installer or script, unpacking some archive and so on.  But if every
content on a disk was created and put there under manual control of
the disk owner, we could still get along with floppy disks quite fine.
In practice, much more content gets sent around and juggled than what
is under immediate supervision of the user.

This is getting silly: you don't need to pull out rabbits out of your
head.  You said that you are not inclined to do any work in that area
since it does not touch _your_ use cases (well, at least not to a
degree that you consider worth bothering about) but that is no reason
to get into ridiculous arguments about other usage.  No code will come
of that.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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