Re: On removing files and "git-rm is pointless"

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Dec 2, 2006, 21:10 UTC
Message-ID: <4571EBD7.2040004@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <200612022059.kB2Kx565009646@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

Horst H. von Brand wrote:

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>>  - without "-r", don't do the partial matches at the beginning (but still 
>>    do globbing matches, of course, so "git rm dir/*" wouldn't need an 
>>    "-r", but "git rm -r dir/", which does the same thing, _would_ need an 
>>    "-r" to be effective)
> 
> The command should never even see the '*' here. Globbing is handled
> (uniformly) by the shell. Don't loose that.

But;

  git-rm \*>/dev/null; git-add \*

is just so darned handy!