Re: Easy way to empty working tree?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jul 21, 2006, 02:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607201944460.29649@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <761519800607201828m19684b2jc267411ef3b8b9e2@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Robin Luckey wrote:

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> 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.

Well, that actually sounds like you might want to just make them totally "bare" repositories, ie you can just do something like

	mv repo/.git repo.git
	rm -rf repo

and then "repo.git" is a valid bare repository.

However, if you actually want to just clear the checked-out files:

> 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 --

or something, or indeed just do a "rm -rf *", since the only thing you actually would want to save is the ".git" directory.

		Linus