RE: git pull on ia64 linux tree

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Luck, Tony wrote:

Yes. I _think_ the right thing to do ends up being something like the update script doing

	diff-tree -r $orig $final | grep '^-'

at the end to get the list of deleted files, and just doing 'rm' on the result.

One problem with this is that "grep" always thinks lines end in '\n', and what we'd really want (from a scriptability angle) is

	diff-tree -z -r $orig $final | grep -0 '^-'

but I don't think you can tell grep to think that lines are zero-terminated instead of terminated with \n'. But I don't see how to do that with grep.

Another similar alternative is to use "show-files --others" before and after the merge and seeing what files got added to the list of "files we don't track", but that just sounds horribly hacky.

Anyway, there are clearly at least two ways of doing this, and we'll just have to have people work on the scripts to do it right..

		Linus