# cd

2 messages from 2013-04-03 to 2013-04-03. Participants: jpinheiro, Andreas Ericsson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/33366

## jpinheiro, 2013-04-03 14:49

Subject: cd
Message-ID: <1365000547327-7581484.post@n2.nabble.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1365000547327-7581484.post%40n2.nabble.com

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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?




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## Andreas Ericsson, 2013-04-03 22:55

Subject: Re: cd
Message-ID: <515CB375.9010104@op5.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/515CB375.9010104%40op5.se
In-Reply-To: <1365000547327-7581484.post@n2.nabble.com>

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