From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:57:16 GMT
Subject: Re: How to commit removed file?
Message-ID: <7vzm8wapdv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87lkklgc8v.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

> 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.