Re: rebase, file permissions and removed file

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Pascal Obry schrieb:
> # At this point there is a conflict as expected
> # file1 has been removed on master, and file1 had its permissions changed
> # on fixperms branch.
> #
> # What I find confusing is that:
> #    $ git diff
> # and
> #    $ git diff --cached
> #
> # are reporting nothing.
> #
> # Ok, file1 has been removed, let's then remove it as it is right:
> #
> #   $ git rm file1
> #   fatal: pathspec 'file1' did not match any files
> #
> # Ok, so what's the proper way to fix that! What should I do to be able to
> # continue the rebase:

Since you don't have any content to lose, you can always just

 $ touch file1
 $ git add file1
 $ git rm file1

-- Hannes