From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
git@vger.kernel.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 21:43:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vslfukido.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612042225220.2630@xanadu.home> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:29:13 -0500 (EST)")
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>>
>> > If it doesn't match HEAD, we can't get it back as easily, so maybe that's
>> > the case when we want to have "git rm -f filename".
>>
>> Hmph. Wouldn't this lossage the same as the lossage we are
>> removing the "safety valve" for, when "commit --only" jumps the
>> index?
>
> Losing an intermediate file state is much less severe than losing the
> latest file state I would think.
Very true indeed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-05 5:43 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
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 [this message]
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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