From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:06:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add"
Message-ID: <200908132306.37947.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6pna4lu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Chould you refresh my memory a bit?
> 
> In what circumstance is "rm --ignore-unmatch" useful to begin with?

Not sure about add --ignore-unmatch myself, but there's even an
example of rm --ignore-unmatch in man git-filter-branch, along the
lines of

  git filter-branch --index-filter '
    rm --ignore-unmach some_file_that_shouldnt_be_in_history
  ' -- --all

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch