Avoiding empty directory syndrome (was Re: ...)

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Andrew Cowie wrote:
| On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:07 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
|>> The debian (unstable) directories all appear
|>> to be empty.
|> These are all bzr branches, which is why they appear empty.
|
| I've always felt that that puts people off
|
|         [Git does empty directories too, although their habit of
|         publicly hosting .git  repositories .../path/to/blah.git rather
|         than an empty .../path/to/blah with a .git in it helps a little.
|         Ugly, though]
|
| so we whipped up a tinsy PHP script to act as the DirectoryIndex in
| directories under the /bzr/ tree on our R&D server, eg
|
| http://research.operationaldynamics.com/bzr/slashtime/i18n/
|
| rather than having Apache show an empty directory.
|
| In the rare but important cases where we also have a public working tree
| there, ie
|
| http://research.operationaldynamics.com/bzr/java-gnome/mainline/
|
| we put the directory listing after the branch warning, and then below
| that we manually put out a directory listing more or less as Apache
| would have if we'd left it alone. In directories containing branches,
| and for repositories, we say something a little different in the
| listing, ie
|
| http://research.operationaldynamics.com/bzr/java-gnome/
|
| I'm sure you could do better, but if anyone wants our kludgy PHP snippet
| I can probably pass it along.
|
| AfC
| Sydney
|

Thanks. I'm sure there are a few people who would enjoy this. Is it possible to
post the PHP script somewhere?

John
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