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Re: How to commit removed file?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 6, 2007, 01:57 UTC
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Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
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> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:40:41 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Personally I never saw the point of having "git rm".  Maybe we
>> should remove it to prevent this confusion from happening.
>
> The one place where it's really "necessary", (as opposed to some users
> just expecting it to be there), is to "undo" a git-add, (and I mean a
> git-add that actually adds a new path to the index, not one of these
> newfangled git-adds that simply updates content for an existing path).

"git reset" (i.e. --mixed) is the way to revert the index back to HEAD and start over.

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Message 9 of 16 in “How to commit removed file?”
  1. Michael S. TsirkinDec 31, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinDec 31, 2006
  3. Michael S. TsirkinJan 2, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 2, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2007
  6. Jakub NarebskiJan 2, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 2, 2007
  8. Carl WorthJan 3, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2007
  10. Carl WorthJan 12, 2007
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2007
  12. Michael S. TsirkinJan 3, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 3, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 3, 2007
  15. Michael S. TsirkinJan 4, 2007
  16. Juergen RuehleJan 2, 2007

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