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September 15, 2011 10:52
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Oneliner to prepare empty directories for svn2git conversion
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| find -not -path "*/.svn/*" -type d -empty -exec sh -c "echo This directory was empty. This file let's it be git-compatible. > {}/README.emptydir" \; |
In svn there actually exists no empty dir since every single on has the hidden ".svn" folder, so this way of searching them won't work on a checked out repo, just on an export.
This means there are some adaptations needed.
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If anything is found, one must also add those just-created files with svn-add. Not sure how to that in the one-liner inside the find's exec option.