[Monotone-devel] Re: Directories not first class objects in monotone?

[graydon hoare]

Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> I notice that monotone prunes empty directories.  Is it the case
> that directories are not first class objects?  How would one
> preserve the directory structure of a project?

directories are not first class objects in monotone, no. they are 
represented implicitly by the existence of files with particular pathnames.

if it's really important for an empty directory to exist, you could put 
an entry in .mt-attrs and have a hook make the directory when you 
checkout or update (similar to setting additional file attributes). 
otherwise we try to keep matters as simple as possible and ignore empty 
directories.

-graydon