From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dealmaker Subject: How does Git know which files no longer needed during upgrade? Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:51:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <22318714.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 03 22:52:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LecXg-0004eC-Aj for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:52:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754599AbZCCVvT (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:51:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754505AbZCCVvS (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:51:18 -0500 Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:53412 "EHLO kuber.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbZCCVvS (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:51:18 -0500 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LecWA-0000rM-K9 for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:51:14 -0800 X-Nabble-From: vinkhc@gmail.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I am going to upgrade software to a newer version in my main trunk, I decide to download the newer version and checkout the main trunk and copy it over to my main trunk. If the older version has some files that are no longer in the newer version, how does git determine whether to keep those files or not? Does it even notify me that those files are no longer needed? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-does-Git-know-which-files-no-longer-needed-during-upgrade--tp22318714p22318714.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.