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From: "Stefan Näwe" <stefan.naewe+git@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How does Git know which files no longer needed during upgrade?
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:28:07 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090304T122643-455@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090304094951.GA32433@coredump.intra.peff.net

Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes:

> 
> > cd /path/to/copy
> > rm -rf *
> > cp -a /path/to/new/version/* .
> > git add -A
> > git commit -m 'update foo to 2.0'
> 
> Nit: "rm -rf *" will miss files starting with '.'. So it is probably
> simpler to say what you mean: delete all files managed by git:
> 
>   git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm -f
> 
> -Peff

But maybe one wants to keep a .gitignore file. 

Regrads,
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 21:51 How does Git know which files no longer needed during upgrade? dealmaker
2009-03-03 23:30 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-03-04  9:49   ` Jeff King
2009-03-04 12:28     ` Stefan Näwe [this message]
2009-03-04 12:38       ` Jeff King

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