[PATCH] clone: allow clones into effectively empty directories

[Eduard-Cristian Stefan]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 17:08, Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
> Gaaaack.  That smells like a can of worms -- see the followup you got
> about files on Windows that "don't count" according to that OS.  What
> about lost+found for ext* filesystems on Linux?

There can be only one lost+found directory for each partition, so this
is a well-known directory in a very specific location, and most of the
users won't clone a repo in it anyway.

> -0.5: either a directory is empty or it isn't.

+0.5 because a regular user won't be able to clone into an
custom-location-empty-looking folder that has a hidden thumbs.db or
desktop.ini file in it, and users shouldn't suffer for some
questionable Windows design decisions.

OTOH, a nice dialog that informs the user that there are some hidden
files in that folder would probably help a little bit more.

Have a nice day,
  Eduard