From: Chris Lee <clee@kde.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:38:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Simple UI question...
Message-ID: <204011cb0701070338i5f8a8b4bw8b39050aeb192edb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070107112944.GF10351@spearce.org>

On 1/7/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Chris Lee <clee@kde.org> wrote:
> > I assume 'removing everything in the working tree' counts as "local
> > modifications"? :)
>
> Yes!  That's what's going wrong.  Don't do "rm -rf *".  Let Git take
> care of the empty directories for you.  If Git deletes all source
> files in that directory (as they don't belong in this version that
> you are checking out) it will also delete the now empty directory.
>
> The only time it fails is if you are on Windows and some process
> has the directory busy.  :-)

So, if I were starting with an empty working directory, and I had just
synced over the .git folder from the place where I'm doing the actual
importing - how would I populate the working directory with a copy of
the contents of the tree from (say)
07058310db903317faa300b93004a5a2e0fc2dcc ?