RESOLVED: r3.0-66 builds not saving configs properly

[gblues]

If anyone has built from the git repository recently, you may have noticed that the fresh build doesn't save configuration settings properly (assuming you haven't copied your User/ folder from a previous build). I did a little research and found the problem.

It turns out that by design, git doesn't store empty directories. Now, the build's configuration is pulled from a template stored in the Data/ folder of the repository. When the SVN build was checked into git, all the empty directories got inadvertently expunged. And if the User/Config folder doesn't exist, Dolphin won't save its settings.

As a short-term solution, I have manually re-created the directory tree (using a previous build for reference) and populated the empty directories with empty .gitignore files. I committed these to the main repository, so updating to 3.0-67 and rebuilding should create the missing directories.

A long-term solution would be to modify the Dolphin I/O core to automatically create the directories it needs at runtime--either in realtime when it goes to write the config files, or as a sanity check at startup--but this will work for the time being.

[Billiard26]

It sounds like you might be confused on how git works.
When you clone you get a complete copy of the repository.
When you committed your changes, it was to your local repo. Other people can't see/use them.
You must push your changes to the google code repo for other people to see them. (you must be a project member, or you create a clone and push there)

We probably want to fix it the correct way like you said though, making Dolphin create the directories.

[neobrain]

Dolphin is already autocreating the directories on non-windows platforms. Fixing this is just a matter of moving one line in the source.

[gblues]

Bah! Figures. I should've known something was up when it just let me commit the changes without any sort of authentication! Ah well, at least this thread proved useful.

[HawaiianPunch]

Considering that fixed that on your own computer, maybe the devs should give you commit abilities.