On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:30:58AM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote: > First, I think storing upstream code (that you will never touch) in > version control is a horrible idea, but if you really do it, I would do > something like: > > 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 -- 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
