On 15 November 2014 17:10, Martin Decky <[email protected]> wrote: > what are the problems with renames and empty directories? >> > > [...] > Empty directories are a more serious issue simply because we do have empty > directories in our source tree now. I also understand that there are at > least two straightforward solutions for this (generating the empty > directories instead of storing them and .empty files), but neither of them > is elegant.
Are the directories really empty? If the contents are generated, then creating the directory should be part of the generating script. If the directory is really empty, then maybe there should be a README file explaining what the directory is for, just for the sake of reducing confusion. -- J. Z.
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