From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: On removing files and "git-rm is pointless"
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:13:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd570q888.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612022246310.2630@xanadu.home> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:50:46 -0500 (EST)")
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> I think what Linus is proposing makes tons of sense.
>
> If you do git rm by mistake then you can always do git checkout on that
> file to get it back.
>
> If you modified it so it doesn't match the index then git rm won't do
> anything by default so you have a chance to think a bit more.
>
> If you updated the index, didn't commit anything but then do git rm then
> you certainly wanted to really rm the file.
FWIW, I too am in favor of the proposed fix to "git rm" as Linus
outlined.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-04 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-02 17:05 On removing files and "git-rm is pointless" Carl Worth
2006-12-02 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-02 20:00 ` Sam Vilain
2006-12-03 3:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-04 10:13 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-12-04 10:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-04 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-04 16:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-04 16:04 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-12-05 1:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-05 3:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-05 3:44 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-05 5:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-02 20:59 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-02 21:10 ` Sam Vilain
2006-12-02 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
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