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Re: checkout w/ removing untracked files

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EWEnrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Date
Aug 23, 2010, 12:12 UTC
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* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> writes:
> 
> > For my Briegel buildsystem (git://pubgit.metux.de/projects/briegel.git/)
> > I need to checkout a really tree (iow: no untracked files may be
> > left in the workdir) from git. ATM I'm removing and recreating the
> > whole directory first, but I hope to get rid of this step.
> 
> (1) If you have a correctly working "make reallyclean" to remove build
>     artifacts, you wouldn't even need such an option.

I can't rely on that. Some of the trees aren't even sourcetrees but sysroot images. I need a guaranteed fresh tree w/o any user intervention.

> (2) Have you tried to read up on "git clean -dfqx"?
Thanks, that should do it :)
cu
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  1. Enrico WeigeltAug 18, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 18, 2010
  3. Enrico WeigeltAug 23, 2010

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