two factors for switching to Mercurial

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Jun 16 11:13:23 CDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:13 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> dvd at newfoundmarket.com writes:
> 
> Hi
> 
> > 1.  lack of support for empty directory. I saw workarounds such as
> > creating hidden files. But these might not work well when
> > unpredictable number/depth of empty directories are required for
> > other applications to function correctly. [...]
> 
> Mercurial does not version control directories -- I don't really know
> why, though.

It's very simple: almost all directories are implied by the existence of
files. The main benefit of explicitly tracking directories is that you
can track empty directories. And that's a whole lot of extra complexity
to track a whole lot of nothing.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.



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