From: Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:14:08 GMT
Subject: Re: "git rm" could be safer and have a better help msg
Message-ID: <CAFMGiz8+pjskPpPqVgQUevKdWgxPvCKBcmx-07E2yizDqhm9mg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <878sfr1rdm.fsf@igel.home>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 7:33 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >     $ git rm -f --cached myfile   # many thanks to @jast on IRC #git
> Why do you need -f?

If the existing file has been modified, with 'rm'  the '--cached'
option doesn't remove it from Git
unless one uses the '-f' option with it.


-Tom