Re: How does Git know which files no longer needed during upgrade?
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:30:58AM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:
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> 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
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>