Comments on: Rails, Git, and Empty Directories http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/ Fixing business by increasing collaboration and transparency. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:02:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris Kaukis http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-10215 Chris Kaukis Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:54:48 +0000 http://rorblog.techcfl.com/?p=381#comment-10215 Well, if you use the .gitignore file to exclude some files, when you commit a pretty young rails project, you can be left with things like empty tmp, lib, vendor, log directories. I was coming across cases where if I cloned a repo, I would have these missing directories and some generators and other scripts/plugins would complain. It's not obvious right away these were missing. Well, if you use the .gitignore file to exclude some files, when you commit a pretty young rails project, you can be left with things like empty tmp, lib, vendor, log directories. I was coming across cases where if I cloned a repo, I would have these missing directories and some generators and other scripts/plugins would complain. It's not obvious right away these were missing.

]]> By: Jonny Dee http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-9709 Jonny Dee Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:43:19 +0000 http://rorblog.techcfl.com/?p=381#comment-9709 've been facing the issue with empty directories, too. The problem with using placeholder files is that you need to create them, and delete them, if they are not necessary anymore (because later on there were added sub-directories or files. With big source trees managing these placeholder files can be cumbersome and error prone. This is why I decided to write an open source tool which can manage the creation/deletion of such placeholder files automatically. It is licensed under GPLv3 and it is written for .NET platform and runs under Mono (.NET for Linux) and Windows. Just have a look at: http://code.google.com/p/markemptydirs Best regards and have fun with it :) Jonny Dee ‘ve been facing the issue with empty directories, too. The problem with using placeholder files is that you need to create them, and delete them, if they are not necessary anymore (because later on there were added sub-directories or files. With big source trees managing these placeholder files can be cumbersome and error prone.

This is why I decided to write an open source tool which can manage the creation/deletion of such placeholder files automatically. It is licensed under GPLv3 and it is written for .NET platform and runs under Mono (.NET for Linux) and Windows.

Just have a look at: http://code.google.com/p/markemptydirs

Best regards and have fun with it :)

Jonny Dee

]]> By: annoymous http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-7786 annoymous Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:41:14 +0000 http://rorblog.techcfl.com/?p=381#comment-7786 You don't need this program, git can track empty directories by putting a .gitignore in them. If you don't want to track the contents of the directory, put a "*" in that .gitignore. Make sure to remove the subdir lines from your top level .gitignore, and check in the new ignore files in the subdir. You don’t need this program, git can track empty directories by putting a .gitignore in them. If you don’t want to track the contents of the directory, put a “*” in that .gitignore. Make sure to remove the subdir lines from your top level .gitignore, and check in the new ignore files in the subdir.

]]> By: Chris Kaukis http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-6556 Chris Kaukis Wed, 14 May 2008 16:31:45 +0000 http://rorblog.techcfl.com/?p=381#comment-6556 Very cool Patrick! Thanks! Very cool Patrick! Thanks!

]]> By: Patrick Reagan http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-6550 Patrick Reagan Wed, 14 May 2008 12:41:39 +0000 http://rorblog.techcfl.com/?p=381#comment-6550 Chris - I liked your idea and thought - why not pull this into Sake? So I did. Make sure you have sake installed (sudo gem install sake) and install my task: sake -T http://pastie.caboo.se/196733.txt sake -i http://pastie.caboo.se/196733.txt Now from your project root, you can just run: sake git:ignore and it will automatically add the .gitignore files to empty directories. I also updated the code to handle cases where there were already dotfiles in the directory - the task will not throw ignore files there. Source is available on GitHub: http://github.com/vigetlabs/sake-tasks/tree/master p. Chris –

I liked your idea and thought – why not pull this into Sake? So I did. Make sure you have sake installed (sudo gem install sake) and install my task:

sake -T http://pastie.caboo.se/196733.txt
sake -i http://pastie.caboo.se/196733.txt

Now from your project root, you can just run:

sake git:ignore

and it will automatically add the .gitignore files to empty directories. I also updated the code to handle cases where there were already dotfiles in the directory – the task will not throw ignore files there.

Source is available on GitHub:

http://github.com/vigetlabs/sake-tasks/tree/master

p.

]]> By: Chris Kaukis http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-6546 Chris Kaukis Mon, 12 May 2008 01:58:14 +0000 http://rorblog.techcfl.com/?p=381#comment-6546 Well, if you use the .gitignore file to exclude some files, when you commit a pretty young rails project, you can be left with things like empty tmp, lib, vendor, log directories. I was coming across cases where if I cloned a repo, I would have these missing directories and some generators and other scripts/plugins would complain. It's not obvious right away these were missing. Well, if you use the .gitignore file to exclude some files, when you commit a pretty young rails project, you can be left with things like empty tmp, lib, vendor, log directories. I was coming across cases where if I cloned a repo, I would have these missing directories and some generators and other scripts/plugins would complain. It’s not obvious right away these were missing.

]]> By: Randal L. Schwartz http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-6545 Randal L. Schwartz Mon, 12 May 2008 01:23:38 +0000 http://rorblog.techcfl.com/?p=381#comment-6545 I'm curious...since git is a "content" tracker, and there's no content to an empty directory, why do you need git to track it anyway? I’m curious…since git is a “content” tracker, and there’s no content to an empty directory, why do you need git to track it anyway?

]]> By: bryanl http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2008/05/11/rails-git-and-empty-directories/comment-page-1/#comment-6544 bryanl Mon, 12 May 2008 00:58:32 +0000 http://rorblog.techcfl.com/?p=381#comment-6544 FWIW, I believe Rails Edge has support to automatically create directories when needed. This problem should go away soon. FWIW, I believe Rails Edge has support to automatically create directories when needed. This problem should go away soon.

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