From: Alex Riesen Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:08:40 GMT Subject: Re: Easy way to empty working tree? Message-ID: <81b0412b0607210008l45198948sab391a8cf94c7af8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 7/21/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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 --