From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:49:51 GMT
Subject: Re: How does Git know which files no longer needed during upgrade?
Message-ID: <20090304094951.GA32433@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090303233058.GE4371@genesis.frugalware.org>

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