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jpinheiro· Apr 3, 2013, 14:49 UTC · lore

Hi all,

We are students from Universidade do Minho in Portugal, and we are using git in project as a case study. While experimenting with git we found an unexpected behavior with git rm. Here is a trace of the unexpected behavior:

$ git init $ mkdir D $ echo "Hi" > D/F $ git add D/F $ rm -r D $ echo "Hey" > D $ git rm D/F warning: 'D/F': Not a directory rm 'D/F' fatal: git rm: 'D/F': Not a directory

If the file D created with last echo did not exist or was named differently then no error would occur as expected. For example:

$ git init $ mkdir D $ echo "Hi" > D/F $ git add D/F $ rm -r D $ echo "Hey" > F $ git rm D/F

This works as expected, and the only difference is the name of the file of the last echo. Is this the expected behavior of git rm?

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Andreas Ericsson· Apr 3, 2013, 22:55 UTC · re: jpinheiro · lore

Re: cd

On 04/03/2013 04:49 PM, jpinheiro wrote:

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> Hi all,
>
> We are students from Universidade do Minho in Portugal, and we are using git
> in project as a case study.
> While experimenting with git we found an unexpected behavior with git rm.
> Here is a trace of the unexpected behavior:
>
> $ git init
> $ mkdir D
> $ echo "Hi" > D/F
> $ git add D/F
> $ rm -r D
> $ echo "Hey" > D
> $ git rm D/F
> warning: 'D/F': Not a directory
> rm 'D/F'
> fatal: git rm: 'D/F': Not a directory
>
>
> If the file D created with last echo did not exist or was named differently
> then no error would occur as expected. For example:
>
> $ git init
> $ mkdir D
> $ echo "Hi" > D/F
> $ git add D/F
> $ rm -r D
> $ echo "Hey" > F
> $ git rm D/F
>
> This works as expected, and the only difference is the name of the file of
> the last echo.
> Is this the expected behavior of git rm?
>

Yes. The only difference between 'git rm' and 'rm' is that git rm also removes the file from its index and prepares to commit a version without it. From git's point of view, it's not an error if the file doesn't exist. It *is* an error if the directory where the file should reside suddenly no longer a directory though.

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