From: Jacob Helwig Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:01:10 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Add 'rm -f' equivalent to 'git rm' example of filter-branch --index-filter Message-ID: <1234461670-25657-1-git-send-email-jacob.helwig@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 451950b..1fbbbb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD. +As with using `rm filename`, `git rm --cached filename` will fail +if the file is absent from the tree of a commit. If it is not important +whether the file is already absent from the tree, you can use +`git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename` instead. + To rewrite the repository to look as if `foodir/` had been its project root, and discard all other history: -- 1.6.1.1