Re: On removing files and "git-rm is pointless"

[Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:

>>  - without "-r", don't do the partial matches at the beginning (but still 
>>    do globbing matches, of course, so "git rm dir/*" wouldn't need an 
>>    "-r", but "git rm -r dir/", which does the same thing, _would_ need an 
>>    "-r" to be effective)
> 
> The command should never even see the '*' here. Globbing is handled
> (uniformly) by the shell. Don't loose that.

But;

  git-rm \*>/dev/null; git-add \*

is just so darned handy!