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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
