Fab, cheers.

Dare I ask what the adjective “hella” means in this context?

Not “terrible” in the sense the OP meant, but when I went to see “Hard to be a God,” 40 people sat down and eight made it to the end.

What are the permissions on the directory? What is command are you running to edit the file? What command are you running to delete it? (Have you got selinux turned on? What filesystem is this directory on?)

It’s all the files. Content-addreasable storage means that they might not take up any more space. Smart checkout means they might not require disk operations. But it’s the whole tree.

Came here to say the same thing. The git book is an afternoon’s reading. It’s well worth the time - even if you think you know git.

People complain about the UX of the cli tool (perhaps rightly) but it’s honestly little different from the rest of the unix cli experience: ad hoc, arbitrary, inconsistent.

What’s important is a solid mental model and the vocabulary of primitive and compound operations built with it. How you spell it in the cli is just a thing you learn as you go.

Came here to mention laser cooling; glad someone else got there first.