Re: git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 5, 2007, 14:00 UTC
Message-ID: <86abubkl0v.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <vpqd4z7q820.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

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> One benefit is: you don't have to use "-f" for a non-dangerous
> senario. That seems stupid, but for the plain "rm" command, the
> "-rf" is hardcoded in the fingers of many unix users, and I know
> several people having lost data by typing it a bit too mechanically
> (with a typo behind, like forgetting the "*" in "*~" ;-).

Just a few days ago, I used rm -rf * in a temporary directory. I would now advise people against doing that without an absolute path. The problem was that at some later point of time, some history search/key fsckup popped that line back into the shell and executed it.

At that time, in my home directory. This was definitely annoying, even though the files and directories .* (and thus most configuration data) were spared.

> I'll try writting patch for that if people agree that this is saner
> that the current behavior.

Sounds like it.

-- 
David Kastrup