Re: (beginner) git rm

Tomas Carnecky wrote:

Hi Tom, (thank you for your interest in my newbie problems)

yes that's what I mean : 'undelete' a file, after a "git rm d.txt". But I did not manage to apply your solution succesfully : $ git rm d.txt $ ls a.txt b.txt c.txt $ git status # On branch new # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # deleted: d.txt # $ git checkout d.txt error: pathspec 'mamma.txt' did not match any file(s) known to git. Did you forget to 'git add'?

So it did not work but I've just noticed that unstage tip given by the status command, and I did the following (which worked)

$ git reset HEAD d.txt d.txt: needs update $ ls a.txt b.txt c.txt $ git checkout d.txt $ ls a.txt b.txt c.txt d.txt

Reading the git reset help file gives me the feeling I should use this with caution... It looks like you can somehow modify the change history. Anyway these two commands helped me change the index the way I wanted. Please tell me if this might somehow go wrong in another situation.