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From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git rm --cached
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:05:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071111140518.GA3847@efreet.light.src> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071102021711.GA28703@fawkes.hq.digizenstudio.com>

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 22:17:11 -0400, Jing Xue wrote:
> In the following scenario, why do I have to run 'git reset' following
> 'git rm --cached 1.txt' to revert to exactly where I was before 'git add
> 1.txt'?  Shouldn't 'git rm --cached' have done that already?

The message in git-commit suggesting to use 'git rm --cached' to unstage is
just plain wrong. It really should mention 'git reset'.

git rm, as the name suggests, *removes* the file. 

git reset, as the name suggests, reverts it to the state it was before (but,
somewhat confusingly, with path limit only resets the index, so no --cached
option there).

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-11 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-02  2:17 git rm --cached Jing Xue
2007-11-02 16:13 ` Remi Vanicat
2007-11-02 21:41   ` Jing Xue
2007-11-03  9:39     ` Remi Vanicat
2007-11-04 17:04     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-11-11 14:05 ` Jan Hudec [this message]
2007-11-12  0:38   ` [PATCH] replace reference to git-rm with git-reset in git-commit doc Jing Xue
2007-11-12  2:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-12  4:43       ` [PATCH] RESUBMIT: " Jing Xue
2007-11-14  8:56         ` Junio C Hamano

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