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After doing some fine-tuning of webdav export on Wednesday, I noticed a
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problem: There seems to be no way in the webdav spec to delete a collection
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(directory) only when it's empty like `rmdir(2)` does.
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It would be possible to check the contents of the collection before
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deleting it, but that's complex (involving XML parsing) and race-prone.
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So, I decided to add a remote method to delete a directory, and make
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git-annex keep track of when a directory in an export is empty, and delete
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it. While it does complicate the design some to need to do this, that seems
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better than complicating the implementation of remotes like webdav. And
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some remotes may not have a `rmdir(2)` equivalent or a way to check if a
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directory is empty.
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Spent most of today implementing that, including some rather hairy
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eSQL to maintain a table of exported directories.
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Still not quite done with export..
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Today's work was sponsored by Trenton Cronholm on
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[Patreon](https://patreon.com/joeyh)
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