From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:29:13 GMT
Subject: Re: On removing files and "git-rm is pointless"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612042225220.2630@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xhnm9o6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > If it doesn't match HEAD, we can't get it back as easily, so maybe that's 
> > the case when we want to have "git rm -f filename".
> 
> Hmph.  Wouldn't this lossage the same as the lossage we are
> removing the "safety valve" for, when "commit --only" jumps the
> index?

Losing an intermediate file state is much less severe than losing the 
latest file state I would think.