From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] Package proposal: gnus-mock Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:41:06 -0700 Message-ID: <87murk1lnh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87d0shr60b.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87pnwhmugo.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87d0shmsc1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539276034 20717 195.159.176.226 (11 Oct 2018 16:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:40:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 18:40:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAe0h-0005H5-Q2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAe2o-0002q7-CU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55861) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAe2f-0002pp-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAe2b-0007Iq-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:42:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55408 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAe2b-0006zb-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAe0K-0004p6-73 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:40:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sxgI/Zg6YFYnIJ+4HaWOiSPCvE4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230337 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:59 AM Eric Abrahamsen 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