From: Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:58:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] Implement 'git rm --if-missing'
Message-ID: <20080716185811.GA3517@xp.machine.xx>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzepr7g5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:48:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > git rm --if-missing will only remove files if they've already been removed from
> > disk.
> 
> This probably is a borderline with feaping creaturism.  What's the use of
> it in a real workflow that you need this for?
> 
> "git add -u" may be too broad in that it also adds anything modified, but
> so is --if-missing too broad in that it removes anything removed, and if
> you are going to limit by giving pathspecs _anyway_, then...
> 
> Old timers might just do:
> 
> 	git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D |
>         git update-index --remove --stdin
> 
> ;-)
> 

Ah. This comes in handy. I already searched for a command to delete all
missing files. After reading through the fine manual of 'git rm', I went
to git update-index but didn't come up with a solution to my problem.

But I have to say, an argument to 'git rm' would be preferable than the
above plumping.

-Peter