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[PATCH] Don't require working tree for git-rm

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Nov 3, 2007, 10:08 UTC
Message-ID
<1194084521-12962-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org>

This allows to do git rm --cached -r directory, instead of git ls-files -z directory | git update-index --remove -z --stdin. This can be particularly useful for git-filter-branch users.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
---
 git.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 4e10581..01dcb6a 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
 		{ "rev-list", cmd_rev_list, RUN_SETUP },
 		{ "rev-parse", cmd_rev_parse, RUN_SETUP },
 		{ "revert", cmd_revert, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
-		{ "rm", cmd_rm, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
+		{ "rm", cmd_rm, RUN_SETUP },
 		{ "runstatus", cmd_runstatus, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
 		{ "shortlog", cmd_shortlog, RUN_SETUP | USE_PAGER },
 		{ "show-branch", cmd_show_branch, RUN_SETUP },
-- 
1.5.3.5
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