From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:20:29 GMT
Subject: Re: How to commit removed file?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701022318480.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyatt8di.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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