Why is git creating empty directory: build

Asked Feb 11 '13 at 13:46

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Why is git creating empty directory: build.

I am cloning a SVN repo with the following commands

git svn clone -s http://svn/java/project project

and I see that git created a empty directory that I don't see in SVN, I keep removing it but everytime I do a

git svn rebase

it comes back.. can someone please tell me why and how to stop it

asked Feb 11 '13 at 13:46

techsjs2013

You're probably being hit by this issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4147356/git-svn-w-empty-dir-warnings-what-do-they-mean. – Michael Wild Feb 11 '13 at 13:53
you maybe right but after reading all that I still don't understand how to fix it – techsjs2013 Feb 11 '13 at 13:59
I suspect you'll have to `git svn clone` again using the `--rmdir` option. – Michael Wild Feb 11 '13 at 14:10
Have you tried a `git log --name-status build`, to see what's going on? – Michael Wild Feb 11 '13 at 14:55
Try to remove the directory using the official Subversion client and only then clone with git-svn --rmdir – milton Jun 10 '13 at 21:00
`git config svn-remote.svn.automkdirs false` might stop `git svn` from recreating the directories. – Micha Wiedenmann Apr 05 '16 at 09:18

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