From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:58:20 GMT Subject: Re: No working tree repository Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4C17C77C.9000002@cfl.rr.com> Phillip Susi writes: > On 6/15/2010 2:10 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: >> This is called a "bare" repository. Now, you have the keyword to >> RTFM ;-). > > Ahh, that's the magic word I was groping for. > > It seems that --bare on clone will prevent the checkout of the local > working tree. If I decide I do want the sources today I can just check > them out, but what is the proper way to do the reverse? I was thinking > something like somehow empty the index file then do a git-reset or > git-checkout-index to clean up the working tree to match the empty > index, but I can't figure out how to empty the index. rm -fr * # use at your own risk rm -f .git/index Then, you can get back a tree with "git checkout" or "git checkout HEAD -- .". The advantage of this solution over the empty-branch solution is that although you destroyed your index, HEAD is still there so "git log" and friends will show you where you are. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/