Re: How to commit removed file?

> Quoting r. Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:
> Subject: Re: How to commit removed file?
> 
> >> > 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
> 
> The difference is Michael did "git rm" to explicitly tell git to
> forget about that path, while you used the vanilla "/bin/rm".
> 
> Personally I never saw the point of having "git rm".  Maybe we
> should remove it to prevent this confusion from happening.