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Re: Easy way to empty working tree?

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 21, 2006, 07:08 UTC
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On 7/21/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> > 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?
>
> Well, you can do
>
>         git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm -f --
>

That'd be not enough for kernel after it was compiled. Maybe this:

   find . -maxdepth 1 -not -name .git -not -name . -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf --
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  1. Robin LuckeyJul 21, 2006
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