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Re: "git rm" seems to do recursive removal even without "-r"

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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date
Oct 10, 2017, 19:44 UTC
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2017, Paul Smith wrote:
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> On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 04:36 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   ah, now *that* is a compelling rationale that justifies the
> > underlying weirdness. but it still doesn't explain the different
> > behaviour between:
> >
> >   $ git rm -n 'Makefile*'
> >   $ git rm -n '*Makefile'
>
> I explained that behavior in the email up-thread from this reply:
  yup, sorry i missed it. man, it's been an educational thread.
rday
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