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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: gnus-mock
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:41:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87murk1lnh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8UqNbKoPhZjY2wx2FWxMos45PiqBM-sE7QE6q9k+yTD4Q@mail.gmail.com

Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:59 AM Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>> I just noticed that the ELPA .gitignore filters out empty directories (is
>> that the \#*\# rule?), which messes up the maildirs in this package
>> (they need empty new/ and tmp/ directories).
>
> That is not about .gitignore. Git just doesn’t keep empty directories.

Interesting, I've never run into that problem before.

> Your options are (a) to put a file there, named so that it won’t
> interfere with your code’s functioning; or (b) arrange for empty
> directories to be created at installation|configuration|run time.

I think I'll go with b, that seems less prone to weirdness.

Thanks for the tip!

Eric




  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-11 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-10 18:49 [ELPA] Package proposal: gnus-mock Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-10 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-10 19:53   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-12  8:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-12 17:24       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-12 17:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-12 19:02           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-12 19:24             ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-12 19:57               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-13 12:10                 ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-13 15:48                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-12 19:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-12 20:00               ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-10 19:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-10 20:12   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-10 20:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-10 20:58       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-11  4:24         ` Yuri Khan
2018-10-11 16:41           ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2018-10-17 17:47   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-10-18  0:34     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-18  2:17       ` Eric Abrahamsen

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