From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:43:15 GMT
Subject: Re: On removing files and "git-rm is pointless"
Message-ID: <7vslfukido.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612042225220.2630@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>> 
>> > If it doesn't match HEAD, we can't get it back as easily, so maybe that's 
>> > the case when we want to have "git rm -f filename".
>> 
>> Hmph.  Wouldn't this lossage the same as the lossage we are
>> removing the "safety valve" for, when "commit --only" jumps the
>> index?
>
> Losing an intermediate file state is much less severe than losing the 
> latest file state I would think.

Very true indeed.