From: David Christensen Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:43:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] Implement 'git rm --if-missing' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080716185811.GA3517@xp.machine.xx> On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Peter Baumann wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:48:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh 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