[JuniperMesos]

Maybe the correct thing to do is to modify git so that it can track an otherwise-empty directory and then never have to worry about this problem again. Is there a reason why this is hard to integrate into git's existing model of the filesystem?

[lucketone]

1. Nobody sees this as a big issue.

2. As-is situation is good enough.

3. I guarantee that you will have colleagues that will accidentally add empty dirs. (I definitely have seen when they accidentally add built artefacts; dirs would be lesser issue as they would not increase repo size by much, but still)

4. Actually only first two reasons matter, but for nitpickers there would be also a bit dishonest but formally correct pointing to some doc saying that it is file or content tracker (and formally directory is not a content)

[1718627440]

Git only tracks files not directories, so yeah you would need to change a lot. It is also unclear what the semantics should be. What is with a directory that is tracked as r--, but then files get added?