From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:59:05 GMT
Subject: Re: On removing files and "git-rm is pointless"
Message-ID: <200612022059.kB2Kx565009646@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <torvalds@osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

[...]

> One thing to look out for: "git rm" actually defaults to the recursive 
> behaviour, something that might take people by surprise. If you give it a 
> directory name, it will happily delete all tracked files from within that 
> directory, even without "-r". That is probably a design mistake. So it 
> would probably make sense to:
> 
>  - without "-r", don't do the partial matches at the beginning (but still 
>    do globbing matches, of course, so "git rm dir/*" wouldn't need an 
>    "-r", but "git rm -r dir/", which does the same thing, _would_ need an 
>    "-r" to be effective)

The command should never even see the '*' here. Globbing is handled
(uniformly) by the shell. Don't loose that.
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