Re: rm and mv commands: should I use them?

From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Jan 7, 2008, 05:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20080107050128.GA20484@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <76718490801061905k30c1ac86r51a65165d47807d4@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:05:34PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

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>On 1/6/08, Jon Hancock <redstarling@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Additionally, is there
>> a simple procedure with git to say: "I want to version exactly what is
>> in my working tree.  If I removed something or added something, just
>> handle it".
>
>>From http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/ch05.html#id2553633
>is the helpful hint:
>
>$ git-ls-files -d -m -o -z | xargs -0 git-update-index --add --remove

As long as your git is new enough to have git-add -u, you should be able to do:

   $ git add .
   $ git add -u

and have the index match the working tree (keeping excludes out).

Dave