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Easy way to empty working tree?

From
Robin Luckey <robinluckey@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 21, 2006, 01:28 UTC
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<761519800607201828m19684b2jc267411ef3b8b9e2@mail.gmail.com>

I have some very large git repositories that serve mainly as archives, and it would be nice to clear out the working directories for the repositories I am not currently working with. I'm not trying to delete the files from the repository, I just want free up space in idle repositories.

After mothballing the repository with git-repack -a -d and git clean -d -x, is there a convenient one-liner to empty the files out the working directory?

Thanks, Robin

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