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how to make a commit only contain existing files

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Ddavid@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
Date
Dec 7, 2010, 21:00 UTC
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I know that I can do a git rm to explictly remove files, but is there an easy way to just say that this commit should contain all the files that exist at this point in time, without carrying over any files that were in a prior commit but that don't exist now?

David Lang
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