Re: [RFC] git rm -u

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2013, 06:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzjys28a0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <50FB1673.8020808@gmail.com>

Eric James Michael Ritz <lobbyjones@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 01/19/2013 04:49 PM, Antoine Pelisse wrote:
>> I think `git add -u` would be closer. It would stage removal of
>> files, but would not stage untracked files.  It would stage other
>> type of changes though.
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Tomas Carnecky
>> Does `git add -A` do what you want?
>
> Thank you Tomas and Antoine.  Both of these commands do what I want:
> stage deleted files on the index.  But does the idea of a `git rm -u`
> still sound useful since these commands also stage changes besides
> deleted files?

Even though I am not sure how often I would use it myself, "reflect only the removals in the working tree to the index, but exclude any other kind of changes" might turn out to be a useful addition to the toolchest in certain cases.

I however am not yet convinced that "git rm -u" is a good way to express the feature at the UI. "git add -u" is "update the index with modification and removal but ignore new files because we won't know if they are garbage or assets". What the same "-u" option means in the context of "git rm" is not very clear, at least to me.