Remove a package after git cms-addpkg
You can checkout a particular package in CMSSW by calling:
git cms-addpkg L1Trigger/L1TMuonEndCap
(see CMSSW FAQ).
But if you happen to remove the package later, the next time you call git status
, all the files in the package will show up as “deleted”. To remedy this, notice that what git cms-addpkg
really does is a git sparse-checkout
operation. So, you can edit the internal file .git/info/sparse-checkout
to remove the package name from the file, then call:
git read-tree -mu HEAD
Now, your local git working area should return to the state before you had called git cms-addpkg
.