Reality-checking the github repository...?

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 03:44:05 UTC 2017


Yes, that's expected.  Due to details in how git represents directory
trees, it is unable to represent empty directories.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:39 PM, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:35:41PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> > ...
> > For my first try, I created a shiny new local clone of the repo we
> > actually use internally,...
> >
> > While I rather expected the first "difference" identified:
> >
> > Only in ../svn/src: .svn
> >
> > I was quote surprised to find 64 more "Only in ../svn/src/...." lines.
> > (I have attached a copy of the file.)
> >
> > Is this expected?
> > ....
>
> Further investigation reveals that each of the cited file system objects
> (other than .svn) either is an empty directory or only contains empty
> directories.
>
> Does that information have an effect on whether or not the result is
> "expected?"
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peace,
> david
> --
> David H. Wolfskill                              david at catwhisker.org
> How could one possibly "respect" a misogynist, racist, bullying con-man??!?
>
> See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
>


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