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From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: "Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recursive remove
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:03:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP095A70114DD0A50FA6CAFAAE260@CEZ.ICE> (raw)
Message-ID: <20060113090301.10e08670.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060113132119.GB23655@ebar091.ebar.dtu.dk>

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:21:19 +0100
"Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> A way to recursively remove a directory /Some/Dir/ is a follows:
> 
>    git ls-files -z Some/Dir >rmfiles
>    git update-index -z --force-remove --stdin <rmfiles
>    git commit -a -m "Remove directory Some/Dir"
>    rm -rf Some/Dir
> 
> What is a better way to do it?
> 

Hi Peter,

The following is a bit more concise but not better than your version:

rm -rf Some/Dir
git ls-files -z -d Some/Dir | git-update-index -z --remove --stdin
git commit -m "Remove directory Some/Dir"


Git could stand to have an "rm" command to make this easier.


Sean

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-13 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-13 13:21 Recursive remove Peter Eriksen
     [not found] ` <20060113090301.10e08670.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-01-13 14:03   ` sean [this message]
2006-01-13 17:37 ` Junio C Hamano
     [not found]   ` <20060113125604.4ec91466.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-01-13 17:56     ` sean
2006-01-13 19:51       ` Junio C Hamano

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