From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:51:55 GMT
Subject: Re: How to commit removed file?
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:

> 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 ;-).