Re: No working tree repository

Phillip Susi [off-list ref] writes:

On 6/15/2010 2:10 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

quoted

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.

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Matthieu Moy
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