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From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: Jon Hancock <redstarling@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rm and mv commands: should I use them?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:04:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080106080415.GA15268@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <379EDA94-A67B-483A-BC5F-E961DD52AD0C@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:55:22PM +0800, Jon Hancock wrote:

> So, do I need to use git's mv and rm commands?  Can't I just rename,  
> add, and remove files using any means I like and then just ensure my  
> "index" is staged properly when I do a commit?

Yes.  You can use either git-rm or 'git-commit -a' to remove files.  To
rename, you can use git-mv, or you can rename the file yourself, git-add
the new name, and git-rm the old name.

There is no metadata stored with git-mv and git-rm, they just update the
tree and the index.

Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-06  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06  7:55 rm and mv commands: should I use them? Jon Hancock
2008-01-06  8:04 ` David Brown [this message]
2008-01-06  8:08 ` Brian Swetland
2008-01-06  8:08 ` Jeff King
2008-01-06 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-07  1:55   ` Jeff King
2008-01-07  2:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-07  3:06       ` Jeff King
2008-01-07 18:37         ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-07  3:05 ` Jay Soffian
2008-01-07  5:01   ` David Brown

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