On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:28:07PM +0000, Stefan Näwe wrote: > > > 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 > > But maybe one wants to keep a .gitignore file. True. The problem is that you have no way of saying "give me all the files that git cares about, except the ones that I put there manually and not from this tarball." If you guess that dot-files are manual and everything else isn't, then that is easy, but not necessarily right. If you tagged the last import, you use "git ls-tree" to get you the list of files just from the tarball. -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
