Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:42:58 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Source tree has many empty directories? Message-ID: <6140ae514e02b029e7451065da08c49c749f029e.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <289ADD78-FD39-435B-80D5-91901FE065DD@FreeBSD.org> References: <b3fb681e-e543-2da1-e628-55d856dfef5d@selasky.org> <CANCZdfqkw-NYcG=B8%2BHyD4Amr7wkWPoX0ewMhM2Gywq9XqjDtQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfp7ctPRhGC%2B-_TqNp-BcegOnrw=DE2zDKkAGHDLc5Oq%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> <ed46d0d5e781089766e7cabcce595551fdb3c501.camel@freebsd.org> <289ADD78-FD39-435B-80D5-91901FE065DD@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 21:41 +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 10 Sep 2019, at 20:14, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 11:01 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > However, please do *NOT* remove the sys/*/compile directories. > > > > > > Warner > > > > Uhhh... that's interesting. I just nuked one of those on my system > > yesterday, because it had been hanging around since 2013 and I had no > > idea what was -- I just assumed the build machinery created it because > > I had accidentally done a make in a wrong directory once. > > > > So what are those directories about? I'm not used to seeing mystery > > directories appear inside a source tree. > > There's not much mystery to be found. Subversion does not warn you when you > remove the last files from a directory, and it also does not automatically > remove such empty directories, like Git. Hence, those directories tend to > stick around, because every simply forgets about them. > > With regards to those empty directories under contrib/llvm, those were actually > imported from upstream. But since the llvm project will switch to Git soon, > this problem will automagically disappear. :-) > > -Dimitry > I was referring specifically to the sys/*/compile directories Warner mentioned. -- Ian
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