Seriously? We should hack our ant files around the bugs in every crappy source control system that comes out?
Fix Git. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Smiley, David W. <dsmi...@mitre.org>wrote: > I've run into this too. I don't think this needs to be documented, I think > it needs to be *fixed* -- that is, the relevant ant tasks need to not assume > these directories exist and create them if not. > > ~ David Smiley > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lance Norskog [mailto:goks...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:14 PM > To: solr-dev > Subject: GIT does not support empty directories > > There are some empty directories in the Solr source tree, both in 1.4 > and the trunk. > > example/work > example/webapp > example/logs > > Git does not support empty directories: > > https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Can_I_add_empty_directories.3F > > And so, when you check out from the Apache GIT repository, these empty > directories do not appear and 'ant example' and 'ant run-example' > fail. There is no 'how to use the solr git stuff' wiki page; that > seems like the right place to document this. I'm not git-smart enough > to write that page. > -- > Lance Norskog > goks...@gmail.com > -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com
