From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:52:59 GMT
Subject: Re: git-show --stat on first commit
Message-ID: <20061121185259.GA22461@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061121184817.GE7201@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:39:56PM CET, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > for file in $(git-ls-files); do git-update-index --force-remove $file; done
> > 
> > Before creating the new files and "git-commit"ing.
> 
> Ok, this approach looks actually reasonable (contrary to the frequently
> suggested rm approach, which is rather dangerous).
> 
> Perhaps git checkout --empty could do this?

Or perhaps just delete .git/index?

Any git-update-index --add or git-add command will immediately create
an empty index.  Indeed this is the initial state after git-init-db,
since there is no HEAD to load into the index there is no index...

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