From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:11:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rm: don't remove newly added file without -f
Message-ID: <7v1wjbwvzl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070326185539.GA1650@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Given this set of commands:
>
>   $ echo "newly added file" >new
>   $ git add new
>   $ git rm new
>
> the file "new" was previously removed from the working
> directory and the index. Because it was not in HEAD, it is
> available only by searching for unreachable objects.

I am not sure if this is a problem, as the user asked it to be
removed.  It somehow feels to me that the change (I am not
convinced your patch should be called a "fix" rather than a
"behaviour change") would cause more confusion.

Unstaging request would have looked like "git reset HEAD new",
wouldn't it?