From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:39:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git rm -u
Message-ID: <vpqliac41zf.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CALWbr2y-CN9A346avc4AG+FN9NHgPXKvWuU-nbcyjt08DavVjw@mail.gmail.com>

Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> writes:

>> "git rm" really seems to be a better place for removing files from the
>> index.
>
> Then, I don't exactly understand the meaning of git-rm but being a
> _shortcut_ for "remove and stage".

"git rm --cached" is exactly "remove from index".

And even without --cached, as you notice yourself, it does a "remove and
stage [removal]", so why would it be inappropriate to stage a removal?

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/