Recursive remove

From: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Date: Jan 13, 2006, 13:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20060113132119.GB23655@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk>

Hello,

A way to recursively remove a directory /Some/Dir/ is a follows:

   git ls-files -z Some/Dir >rmfiles
   git update-index -z --force-remove --stdin <rmfiles
   git commit -a -m "Remove directory Some/Dir"
   rm -rf Some/Dir

What is a better way to do it?

Regards,

Peter

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