From: "Chris Lee" <clee@kde.org>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Simple UI question...
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 03:38:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <204011cb0701070338i5f8a8b4bw8b39050aeb192edb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070107112944.GF10351@spearce.org>
On 1/7/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Chris Lee <clee@kde.org> wrote:
> > I assume 'removing everything in the working tree' counts as "local
> > modifications"? :)
>
> Yes! That's what's going wrong. Don't do "rm -rf *". Let Git take
> care of the empty directories for you. If Git deletes all source
> files in that directory (as they don't belong in this version that
> you are checking out) it will also delete the now empty directory.
>
> The only time it fails is if you are on Windows and some process
> has the directory busy. :-)
So, if I were starting with an empty working directory, and I had just
synced over the .git folder from the place where I'm doing the actual
importing - how would I populate the working directory with a copy of
the contents of the tree from (say)
07058310db903317faa300b93004a5a2e0fc2dcc ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-07 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-07 11:02 Simple UI question Chris Lee
2007-01-07 11:06 ` Josef "Jeff" Sipek
2007-01-07 11:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-07 11:21 ` Chris Lee
2007-01-07 11:29 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-07 11:38 ` Chris Lee [this message]
2007-01-07 11:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-07 11:50 ` Chris Lee
2007-01-07 11:30 ` Junio C Hamano
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