Re: No working tree repository

From: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Date: Jun 15, 2010, 20:41 UTC
Message-ID: <201006151441.35554.wjl@icecavern.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C17C77C.9000002@cfl.rr.com>

On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:33:32 Phillip Susi wrote:

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> Ahh, that's the magic word I was groping for.
> 
> It seems that --bare on clone will prevent the checkout of the local
> working tree.  If I decide I do want the sources today I can just check
> them out, but what is the proper way to do the reverse?  I was thinking
> something like somehow empty the index file then do a git-reset or
> git-checkout-index to clean up the working tree to match the empty
> index, but I can't figure out how to empty the index.

I often want to have a regular tree, but only sometimes check it out, and I want it to be in-place (e.g. not a bare repository and a separate work- tree).

What I do is I make a local "empty" branch with no files or ancestory. For this I have a "git-emptybranch" script (attached), but you can easily do this by hand.

Then when I want files, I do:

$ git checkout master  ## or whatever branch

When I'm done, I do

$ git checkout empty

and all the files go away.

Even with empty checked out, I can fetch, push, run gitk --all, etc.

This works well for me.