Re: How to commit removed file?

Johannes Schindelin writes:
 > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
 > 
 > > > I'd like to remove a file and commit the removal while
 > > > leaving out other changes in repository/index.
 > > > 
 > > > $git rm kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch
 > > > rm 'kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch'
 > > > 
 > > > $ git commit kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch
 > > > error: pathspec 'kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch' did not match
 > > > any file(s) known to git.
 > > > Did you forget to 'git add'?
 > > > 
 > > > A similiar thing works with "git add".
 > > 
 > > Any ideas? Can this be done with git?
 > 
 > Did you actually try the "--" thing I suggested in 
 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/35699/?
 > 
 > Besides, I just tested with current "next": 
 > 
 > $ git commit kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch
 > Created commit 89a5bb5ac16fb8be9b6e061284e191cafb3e4da2
 >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
 >  delete mode 100644 a234

But (at least in next from yesterday or something -- having an old modem here only:-) it doesn't work if you delete the file using git-rm, because git-commit -o operates only on known files: one of the first things in this code path is a

  git-ls-files --error-unmatch -- $@

This seems wrong because -o is supposed to bypass the index. It should probably be doing ls-tree --name-only HEAD -- $@ instead, but ls-tree doesn't have the --error-match functionality.