taw comments on Tool ideology - Less Wrong

25 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 September 2011 10:37PM

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Comment author: thomblake 13 September 2011 08:16:16PM 0 points [-]

In what situations would you want to store an empty directory and pay attention to whether it is renamed?

Comment author: taw 14 September 2011 09:58:31PM 3 points [-]

Empty directories are sometimes necessary and it's a pain in the ass that git cannot store them at all. I had to put almost empty README.txt files in directories like log/ in many projects. It's more a minor annoyance than anything more.