From: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 01:27:33 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Representation of empty directories.
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Representation of empty directories.

Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
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diff --git a/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst b/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst
index 0d8ee45e..d9c6e25e 100644
--- a/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst
+++ b/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst
@@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ Each directory entry in a DMD also stores a version number, so that the
 latest version of a file is well-defined when it has been modified by
 multiple clients.
 
+To enable representing empty directories, a client that creates a
+directory should link a corresponding zero-length file in its DMD,
+at a name that ends with the encoded directory separator character.
+
 We want to enable dynamic configuration of the set of clients subscribed
 to a Magic Folder, without having to reconfigure or restart each client
 when another client joins or leaves. To support this, we have a single