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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-status: wording update to deal with deleted files.
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:48:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eo8ols$ja$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 878xg9xcca.wl%cworth@cworth.org

Carl Worth wrote:

> commit after stage
> ------------------
> git stage: stage content for new, modified, or removed files
> 
> commit -a
> ---------
> git add: mark new files to be committed
> 
> Compare that to the above description. Isn't it beautiful from a
> conceptual point-of-view? The "git rm" command isn't needed at all,
> (though we could certainly still provide it). And now the "git add"
> command only has one conceptual use, for (of all thing!) adding new
> files, not updating content for files that have been modified.

Without "git rm" (or "git update-index --force-remove") you cannot
make file to be untracked by git, i.e. remove it from the files
tracked by git but not remove it from directory.

With current version of git-rm (modulo bugs), if you do "git rm <file>"
the file would be removed from index, and if recoverable from working
directory. Without git-rm you would have to use plumbing to remove it from
index but preserve changes.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-12 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-11 20:10 Removing files David Kågedal
2007-01-11 21:36 ` Alex Riesen
2007-01-11 22:25   ` Seth Falcon
2007-01-11 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-11 23:19   ` Eric Wong
2007-01-11 23:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-11 23:37   ` [PATCH] git-status: wording update to deal with deleted files Junio C Hamano
2007-01-11 23:56     ` Carl Worth
2007-01-12  0:13       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-12  1:28         ` Carl Worth
2007-01-12 19:48           ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-01-12  0:07     ` Jeff King
2007-01-12 22:13     ` Juergen Ruehle
2007-01-11 23:41 ` Removing files Carl Worth
2007-01-12  0:17   ` Jeff King

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