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Re: How to commit removed file?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 2, 2007, 22:20 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0701022318480.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The difference is Michael did "git rm" to explicitly tell git to forget 
> about that path, while you used the vanilla "/bin/rm".
Ah. In this case, it is enough to just say "git commit"...
> Personally I never saw the point of having "git rm".  Maybe we should 
> remove it to prevent this confusion from happening.

People seem so used to "cvs remove" that they had to have "git rm". Dunno. I never used it. (Except to verify that indeed even "--" does not work with Michael's example.)

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Michael S. TsirkinDec 31, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinDec 31, 2006
  3. Michael S. TsirkinJan 2, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinJan 2, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 2, 2007
  6. Jakub NarebskiJan 2, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 2, 2007
  8. Carl WorthJan 3, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2007
  10. Carl WorthJan 12, 2007
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2007
  12. Michael S. TsirkinJan 3, 2007
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 3, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 3, 2007
  15. Michael S. TsirkinJan 4, 2007
  16. Juergen RuehleJan 2, 2007

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