Re: need to create new repository initially seeded with several branches

In message <CAKjsY4nsPNO_kvxeime8qcNrRFykgG2TOYxJ0HKbj2zR5Rwv+Q@mail.gmail.com>, Ryan Wexler writes:

    > # Cause git to delete all files in the internal index
    > git read-tree --reset -i 4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
    > # Cause git to delete all files in the working directory
    > git clean -dfx

    > The only "magic" is the read-tree/git-clean stuff.  The 4b82…
    > value is the SHA of an empty tree.  It could be replaced by
    > a:
    >
    > find . -maxdepth 1 ! -name '.git' -a ! -name '..' -a ! -name '.' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

    I have to say that I am lost by the "magic" you describe.  I don't
    understand what you mean by the 4b82... value should be replaced by
    the find | xargs remove all command.   That command looks like it just
    deletes all the "." file names?  But when you say replace I thought
    you would mean I need to generate a new value to replace that magic
    number??  Confused...

I was just trying to explain what the git-read-tree and git-clean commands are doing. The long string starting with 4b825d is a special SHA that git knows represents an empty tree. I was saying that you *could* (not should) replace the two commands (git-read-tree and git-clean) with the "find | xargs rm" command I quoted. The two sets of commands are equivalent.

Also, if you look at the find command, I am finding everything *except* the .git . and .. directories

					-Seth Robertson