Hello, * On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:54:31AM +0200 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > I remember this behaviour from the old days with RCS and later CVS, where > directories where "second level items" and not tracked completely. Well, RCS was not able to handle directories at all. That was the big advantage of CVS over RCS. I worked long with RCS until I finally saw the advantage of being able to handle whole directories. > One of the > design goals for Subversion was to improve this behaviour. And it does: > There's no difference between files and directories, you get full version > control for both. So the statement "SCM try to handle files, not directories" > is not correct. It may be correct for git but not in general. Well, I should have stated it like "SCM traditionally try..." or so. Yes, I know that SVN does it differently. > So to end this, it seems to be just so for no specific reason. Accepted. Yes, I would say so. > > Even using SVN would not help here for me. The Debian build system will > > remove empty dirs if told to do a make clean. > > Ok. Might I dare to ask for the specific advantages of this approach? Just > being curious as ever. Please note that I'm well prepared to accept that there > is no good reason whatsoever:-) I would say that there is no good reason here, either. At least, I do not know one. However, as I have had this "problem" more than once, I learned never to rely on directories being there if they are empty. That's why I wanted to add the "mkdir" into the build scripts. For me, it's a way of being careful with the build system, handling the case that it does not do what one might expect. I even did this when I was working with SVN. But, as I said, I can also add this to the Debian makefile, so it's not a big issue. That's also the reason why I did not just commit it into your SVN, but why I send it to this ML, so we can discuss it and I can see if you like it or not. Now, I know your result. ;) Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Wed Aug 22 12:53:48 2012
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