On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Robin Luckey wrote: > > I have some very large git repositories that serve mainly as archives, > and it would be nice to clear out the working directories for the > repositories I am not currently working with. I'm not trying to delete > the files from the repository, I just want free up space in idle > repositories. Well, that actually sounds like you might want to just make them totally "bare" repositories, ie you can just do something like mv repo/.git repo.git rm -rf repo and then "repo.git" is a valid bare repository. However, if you actually want to just clear the checked-out files: > After mothballing the repository with git-repack -a -d and git clean > -d -x, is there a convenient one-liner to empty the files out the > working directory? Well, you can do git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm -f -- or something, or indeed just do a "rm -rf *", since the only thing you actually would want to save is the ".git" directory. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html