Re: How to commit removed file?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 3, 2007, 06:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhcv8r4ac.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070103060640.GD20259@mellanox.co.il>

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:

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> But won't the same problem appear with
>
> rm file
> git-update-index file
> git-commit file

If you do index manipulation yourself using update-index, do not jump the index at the commit time using "git commit file..." syntax; the sole purpose of that misfeature is to handhold CVS-braindamaged people who want to make per-path partial commits.

We bend backwards to allow index-jumping for most cases in git-commit, and you found that "most" is not "all". That's a great news.

I am not interested to make it "all" myself -- if somebody else does it, that is fine, though ;-).