It looks like ceej maintains this mirror - I've sent him an email about this
so he can take care of it.

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The person maintaining the github repository should just do this;
> It doesn't look like github has an issue tracker (shame), so you can't
> really report this to the mirror maintainer...
>
> I've edited that wiki, and put a warning in it (I'm sure someone will be
> unhappy, but oh, well!)
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Of course, if it were I - I would not put empty placeholder files in my
>> master if I did not need to, nor useless init files ....
>> We who mirror where that is needed can write our own scripts to hold those
>> directories (by putting empty files in;  I wouldn't do the other way around,
>> as the whole point of web2py is no setup - and changed code is... well,
>> changed code).
>>
>> Your mileage may vary.....
>>
>> Y.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> bazaar and svn version directories and files;cvs and mercurial and git
>>> do not;
>>>
>>> To "hold" directories (since they are not really versioned) you need to
>>> put an empty file in them.
>>>
>>> You can see how I handled it for mercurial by looking at the repository
>>> at http://bitbucket.org/yarko/web2py/
>>>
>>> (you don't have to use mercurial - you can just get a zip or tar file -
>>> see upper-right).
>>>
>>> Massimo - perhaps you could (just as a service to the community that uses
>>> other repositories) include / merge in "empty, directory place-holder" files
>>> for those that use other repositories?   It's not strictly necessary, but
>>> then the mirrors would at least look the same, and be comparable with tools.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yarko
>>>
>>> I've been a little busy, so I haven't updated in the past week, but
>>> likely will this weekend....
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:53 PM, BigBaaadBob <w...@rwwa.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Massimo:
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious on your thoughts here.  I'd like to use git and track your
>>>> Google repo because I think that is the authoritative one.   There are
>>>> options:
>>>>
>>>> * If you make the currently empty directories non-empty (by adding
>>>> a .something file or something) this will "just work".
>>>>
>>>> * I can cause the empty directories to be created somehow and publish
>>>> that for other git users (tracking svn) could do the same.  This could
>>>> even be automated somehow.
>>>>
>>>> I understand that you might not want to do things to support a SCM you
>>>> don't use.
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 16, 9:50 am, BigBaaadBob <w...@rwwa.com> wrote:
>>>> > Ceej:  I'm using git-svn to track Massimo's SVN repo directly.
>>>> >
>>>> > It is probably just me, but I prefer to track the authoritative
>>>> > repo.   I worry if different repos have the different "trunk"
>>>> > content.  I know you are only talking about .gitignore files but it
>>>> > feels like a slippery slope to me.
>>>> >>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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