From: Benjamin Buch Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:18:03 GMT Subject: Re: Deleted folder keeps showing up? Message-ID: <8E56979B-5D85-4844-A492-8149EE9E9B2F@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <4AA0C4A2.5040405@drmicha.warpmail.net> Hi Michael, thank you for your answer. Strangely, I can't reproduce the error today. As I did quite a lot branching and merging yesterday (learning git), I can't remember the steps that led to the error. And it doesn't have to be an error though - perhaps it was just my clouded perception due to the lots of branches. But I will keep an eye on this and see if it happens again. Sorry for bothering, - benjamin Am 04.09.2009 um 09:41 schrieb Michael J Gruber: > Benjamin Buch venit, vidit, dixit 03.09.2009 18:59: >> I made a branch and deleted a folder there with git rm -rf >> foldername. >> So now i have to branches, A with the folder and B without the >> folder. >> >> I'm on B, the folder is not there. >> Then I check out A, the folder shows up like it should. >> When I check out B again, the folder is still there. >> >> A git rm -rf folder gives me: >> >> fatal: pathspec 'folder/' did not match any files >> >> , so git is not tracking the folder. >> >> I can rm -rf the filder without git and start the whole game from the >> beginning, >> but there has to be a better way? >> >> Strange enough this happens just to two folders I removed, >> with others there is no problem. > > What does "git status" say when you've checked out B? Could some > contents of folder/ possibly be being ignored (.git/info/excludes > etc.)? > > Michael > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html