How do I clean out my working copy?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Aug 11 01:48:44 UTC 2005


On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:20:30PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
>   I want to clear out my working directory.  Is this a good procedure?
> 
>     1.  Delete everything except .hg/ and .hgtags.
>     2.  Overwrite .hg/dirstate with a zero-length file.

It works. But it's simpler just to clone -U, which creates a clone
with no checkout.

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