Tracking directories in Mercurial

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 09/01/2009 09:06 AM, Fredrik Jonson wrote:
> In<25232006.post at talk.nabble.com>  jeffm712 wrote:
>
>    
>>   I know that right now Mercurial doesn't track directories. But in our
>>   projects, often the first thing we do is create a project structure.
>>      
> I'm not a fan of using dummy files either, they distract from the actual
> project content, and it's easy to forget to remove them once there is real
> content in the project.
>    

I - and probably other users too - think that the current behaviour is 
fine, so I would expect any functionality for letting Mercurial track 
empty directories to be configurable anyway. So why not use an extension 
for that?

Take a look at http://markmail.org/message/tukbcq6jlaxz4kb5 and 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/markemptydirs

/Mads