[Help-stow] Stow toasts existing directories

[Rich Bodo]

Hi,

        I noticed that if I have an existing directory tree with no
        files in it, such as:

        /usr/local/share/bayonne/tgi/

        and a stow directory of:

        /usr/local/stow

        and a stowed application called bvm,

        and a stowed application file like:

        /usr/local/stow/bvm/share/bayonne/tgi/file.pl

        when I unstow the application bvm with:

        stow -D -d /usr/local/stow bvm

        stow blows away the entire directory structure
        /usr/local/share/bayonne.

        it does this because there are no more files in there, but
        many other applications would like to store files there, and
        the directory structure existed long before I stowed the
        application "bvm", so I don't think stow should blow
        directories away like this.

        Is there a way to tell stow not to blow away empty directories
        that existed before the application was stowed?

-Rich

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