From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 20:42:27 GMT
Subject: Re: "git rm" seems to do recursive removal even without "-r"
Message-ID: <20171008204227.f6wgaobosa6yn62g@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710081536180.28646@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 03:44:14PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >     find <find args> | xargs git rm
> >
> > myself.
> 
>   that's what i would have normally used until i learned about git's
> magical globbing capabilities, and i'm going to go back to using it,
> because git's magical globbing capabilities now scare me.

Hmm, I wonder if the reason why git's magically globbing capabilities
even exist at all is for those poor benighted souls on Windows, for
which their shell (and associated utilities) doesn't have advanced
tools like "find" and "xargs"....

				- Ted