From: Phillip Susi Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:33:32 GMT Subject: Re: No working tree repository Message-ID: <4C17C77C.9000002@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: On 6/15/2010 2:10 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > This is called a "bare" repository. Now, you have the keyword to > RTFM ;-). 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.