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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org>, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>,        Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>,        Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org>,        "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for the transition timetable for the move to GIT
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On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 07:07:47AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> For each of these exceptional commits a converter to Git has a choice
> of dropping the commit, turning it into some sort of annotated tag, or
> leaving it in place as a zero-op commit (anomalous but not forbidden
> in the git model).

Or doing what everyone else does: put an empty .gitignore file in
otherwise empty directories.  This is safe even if your conversion
creates such files from metadata (why on earth would you do that?!)


Segher