CTFE Status

Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Nov 8 14:56:57 PST 2016


On 11/08/2016 05:54 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 11/08/2016 02:30 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>> I describe git not as a vcs but as exacly what Linus Torvalds described
>> it when he first presented it the Kernel mailing list: a directory
>> content state recorder optimized for text files.
>>
>
> ...that's incapable of comprehending the concept of empty directories,
> contrary to every major file system in use.
>
> I never bought the argument about "b/c it tracks content, not files". If
> that really did explain the limitation, then it wouldn't be capable of
> handling empty *files* either, and yet it does.
>

(Pardon the OT)


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