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Maybe somebody can add a extension to Mercurial that let's you use empty folders.....

• xentac 15y ago
  Git and Mercurial both suffer from this "problem". Because manifests/trees must have contents (file hashes) to exist, you can't track an empty folder. I suppose git's tree objects could point to the empty tree to record an empty folder, but most of the git code is comparing file blobs not trees.
  • eridius 15y ago
    Git's tree structure can certainly encode an empty directory, the problem is the index file can't.
  • pavel_lishin 15y ago
    In git, we solve this problem by sticking a .gitignore file in any directories we want to be part of the repo, but without the contents (cache folders, user-generated data destinations, etc.) How do you get around this in mercurial?
    • getsat 15y ago
      It's usually .gitkeep from what I've seen. .gitignore usually lives in the repo root.
    • tonfa 15y ago
      > How do you get around this in mercurial? Same (with a .empty or .keep file).