Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files

Gar, got caught by the 'reply-to' going to Tony only...

		Dave

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:31:17AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
 > I've just got around to noticing some of the new (to
 > me) features in git, and started experimenting with
 > branches.

Seems a good day to learn new features, I was completely unaware of git-ls-files somehow.

My git snapshot creator that builds the hourly tarballs at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/ currently does an rsync, and then a checkout, and finally it cleans up by removing all the checked out files. It currently does this by hand, but on learning about this 'new' command, I thought, cool, now I can do..

git-ls-files | xargs rm -rf

however, this then leaves a bunch of empty subdirs, as git-ls-files doesn't list the subdirs by themselves in the output. Am I missing some other option ?

		Dave