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How does Git know which files no longer needed during upgrade?

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Ddealmaker <vinkhc@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 3, 2009, 21:51 UTC
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<22318714.post@talk.nabble.com>
Hi,
  I am going to upgrade software to a newer version in my main trunk, I
decide to download the newer version and checkout the main trunk and  copy
it over to my main trunk.  If the older version has some files that are no
longer in the newer version, how does git determine whether to keep those
files or not?  Does it even notify me that those files are no longer needed?
Thanks.
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