"Chris Lee" <clee@xxxxxxx> writes: > On 1/7/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Chris Lee <clee@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I assume 'removing everything in the working tree' counts as "local >> > modifications"? :) >> >> Yes! That's what's going wrong. Don't do "rm -rf *". Let Git take >> care of the empty directories for you. If Git deletes all source >> files in that directory (as they don't belong in this version that >> you are checking out) it will also delete the now empty directory. >> >> The only time it fails is if you are on Windows and some process >> has the directory busy. :-) > > So, if I were starting with an empty working directory, and I had just > synced over the .git folder from the place where I'm doing the actual > importing - how would I populate the working directory with a copy of > the contents of the tree from (say) > 07058310db903317faa300b93004a5a2e0fc2dcc ? git reset --hard 070583 - 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