Re: [PATCH,RFC] Implement 'git rm --if-missing'

From: David Christensen <david@endpoint.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2008, 19:43 UTC
Message-ID: <D5EB71BB-FEA1-4900-AB72-914367B029AB@endpoint.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080716185811.GA3517@xp.machine.xx>

On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Peter Baumann wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:48:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> git rm --if-missing will only remove files if they've already been  
>>> removed from
>>> disk.
>>
>> This probably is a borderline with feaping creaturism.  What's the  
>> use of
>> it in a real workflow that you need this for?
>>
>> "git add -u" may be too broad in that it also adds anything  
>> modified, but
>> so is --if-missing too broad in that it removes anything removed,  
>> and if
>> you are going to limit by giving pathspecs _anyway_, then...
>>
>> Old timers might just do:
>>
>> 	git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D |
>>        git update-index --remove --stdin
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>
> Ah. This comes in handy. I already searched for a command to delete  
> all
> missing files. After reading through the fine manual of 'git rm', I  
> went
> to git update-index but didn't come up with a solution to my problem.
>
> But I have to say, an argument to 'git rm' would be preferable than  
> the
> above plumping.

Wouldn't:

git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)

do the trick, or am I missing something?

Regards,

David -- David Christensen End Point Corporation david@endpoint.com