BigBaaadBob, I can do what Robin suggested and have the blank dirs there using that code, so that won't be a problem from now on. Also the GIT repo is kept up by me so none of the other repos will have .gitignore :)
On Jan 15, 9:14 pm, BigBaaadBob <w...@rwwa.com> wrote: > Ceej is right, and I realized it right after I posted. Git can't > version empty directories. There is a long thread about it here, with > Linux weighing in. http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/7/17/251902. > I don't know if anything has been done in Git to change this behavior. > > I'm not sure I would like to have the SVN (or BZR) repo > contain .gitignore files because that would imply it should also > have .whateverignore files for every other SCM that might hold web2py. > > That would be a bad idea for a number of reasons, but the most > troubling would be that this would duplicate the "ignore" information > in a lot of places and would then be error prone and a pain to > maintain. > > Of course one could put some file in each empty directory as a work- > around as Ceej suggests but that would only address the empty > directory problem and not the ignore problem. > > Maybe there is a better way that kills two birds with one stone. I > observe that the basic information about empty directories is in the > Makefile, as well as the info for which stuff should be ignored. > Maybe this could be generalized so one could have targets like > "gitconfig" that would create the required empty directories and also > put .gitignore files with the correct contents where they go. > > Good or bad idea? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
