Teemu Likonen schrieb: > I'm doing a script named git-remove-tree which removes the working tree > known to Git. It doesn't touch untracked files; it only deletes > directories if they are empty. The script seems to work, but because I'm > not very good at Git plumbing and there can be some corner cases which I > don't know about, I'd appreciate if more experienced users would have a > look. Is the following script safe? > > > #!/bin/sh > # git-remove-tree > > is_wt=$(git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree) > if [ "$is_wt" = false ]; then > echo "You must run this inside a working tree." > exit 1 > elif [ -z "$is_wt" ]; then > exit 1 > fi > > top=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) > cd "$top" || { > echo "Can't go to top-level directory $top" > exit 1 > } > > git ls-tree --name-only -r -z HEAD | xargs -0r -- sh -c ' > for f in "$@"; do > rm -f -- "$f" > d=$(dirname -- "$f") > [ "$d" = . ] || rmdir -p -- "$d" 2>/dev/null > done' dollar0_argument I think you should be able to reduce all of this to just git read-tree --index-output=/tmp/empty.index -m -u \ 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 # empty tree rm -f /tmp/empty.index (with the usual caveats about temporary files). > > echo 'Use "git reset --hard HEAD" to populate the working tree again.' -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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