From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to commit removed file?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:42:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eo7omq$1ap$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877ivtxbt2.wl%cworth@cworth.org
Carl Worth wrote:
> But now that I tried this case with a recent git (2a3a3c247) for which
> git-rm does working-tree removal without -f, I see that it does
> irretrievably destroy information in this case:
>
> $ echo "important stuff" > new-file
> $ git add new-file
> $ git rm new-file
>
> This now deletes new-file from the working tree and there's no copy of
> the data inside git. The old git-rm would just return the file to it's
> "untracked" state in this case.
>
> I had thought the safety check was going to be that the index state
> matched the HEAD state before git-rm would delete from the working
> tree.
That is certainly bug in new git-rm; it should remove file _only_
if it can be recovered with the same state as it was before git-rm.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-12 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-31 10:24 How to commit removed file? Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-12-31 15:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-02 20:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-01-02 21:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-02 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-02 22:13 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-02 22:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-03 0:55 ` Carl Worth
2007-01-06 1:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-12 1:40 ` Carl Worth
2007-01-12 10:42 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-01-03 6:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-01-03 6:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-03 7:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-04 17:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-01-02 21:49 ` Juergen Ruehle
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