fastimport and pruning empty directories

[Ian Clatworthy]

Tom Widmer wrote:
> Bazaar tracks directories, unlike most other DVCSes. However, the
> fastimport format (as far as I know) has no way of specifying directory
> creation or deletion, or, if it does, hg and git exporters don't to my
> knowledge make use of it (since they don't think that such operations
> exist!).
> 
> Is there any way to get bzr fast-import to prune empty directories (e.g.
> when the last file in a directory is removed, automatically remove the
> directory in the same revision)?

Yes, I'll take a look. I've created
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-fastimport/+bug/410140 to track progress.
You may wish to subscribe to it.

Ian C.