From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:07:30 GMT
Subject: Re: fuggedabadit
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0906140007y6deac748i7f75e65f70e230a3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A3481CD.7050602@gmail.com>

2009/6/14 Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com>:
> 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