On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:33:32 Phillip Susi wrote: > Ahh, that's the magic word I was groping for. > > It seems that --bare on clone will prevent the checkout of the local > working tree. If I decide I do want the sources today I can just check > them out, but what is the proper way to do the reverse? I was thinking > something like somehow empty the index file then do a git-reset or > git-checkout-index to clean up the working tree to match the empty > index, but I can't figure out how to empty the index. I often want to have a regular tree, but only sometimes check it out, and I want it to be in-place (e.g. not a bare repository and a separate work- tree). What I do is I make a local "empty" branch with no files or ancestory. For this I have a "git-emptybranch" script (attached), but you can easily do this by hand. Then when I want files, I do: $ git checkout master ## or whatever branch When I'm done, I do $ git checkout empty and all the files go away. Even with empty checked out, I can fetch, push, run gitk --all, etc. This works well for me.
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