From: david@lang.hm
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:52:48 GMT
Subject: Re: how to make a commit only contain existing files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1012071652160.662@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <20101207211126.GA29453@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:00:18PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Won't "git add -A; git commit" do what you want?

it very well may, I'll have to upgrade git on that box to a version that 
supports it.

Thanks.

David Lang