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Re: fuggedabadit

From
SBSanti Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date
Jun 14, 2009, 07:07 UTC
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2009/6/14 Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com>:
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> Gitsters:
>
> El Goog has the wrong answer for the question "how do I forget about a
> file?" Someone cheerfully directed me to git rm, as equivalent to svn rm.
>
> I don't need the actual file to go away. (I, uh, mumble, checked in too much
> when starting out, and now git commit is slooow.)
>
> How do I tell git to forget about a file, but leave on my hard drive?
man git-rm or:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rm.html
have the answer.

HTH, Santi

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