From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:03:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Recursive remove
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP095A70114DD0A50FA6CAFAAE260@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <20060113132119.GB23655@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk>

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:21:19 +0100
"Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> A way to recursively remove a directory /Some/Dir/ is a follows:
> 
>    git ls-files -z Some/Dir >rmfiles
>    git update-index -z --force-remove --stdin <rmfiles
>    git commit -a -m "Remove directory Some/Dir"
>    rm -rf Some/Dir
> 
> What is a better way to do it?
> 

Hi Peter,

The following is a bit more concise but not better than your version:

rm -rf Some/Dir
git ls-files -z -d Some/Dir | git-update-index -z --remove --stdin
git commit -m "Remove directory Some/Dir"


Git could stand to have an "rm" command to make this easier.


Sean