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From: "Chris Lee" <clee@kde.org>
Subject: Re: Simple UI question...
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 03:38:27 -0800
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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 ?