From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: Jon Hancock <redstarling@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rm and mv commands: should I use them?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:04:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080106080415.GA15268@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <379EDA94-A67B-483A-BC5F-E961DD52AD0C@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:55:22PM +0800, Jon Hancock wrote:
> So, do I need to use git's mv and rm commands? Can't I just rename,
> add, and remove files using any means I like and then just ensure my
> "index" is staged properly when I do a commit?
Yes. You can use either git-rm or 'git-commit -a' to remove files. To
rename, you can use git-mv, or you can rename the file yourself, git-add
the new name, and git-rm the old name.
There is no metadata stored with git-mv and git-rm, they just update the
tree and the index.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-06 7:55 rm and mv commands: should I use them? Jon Hancock
2008-01-06 8:04 ` David Brown [this message]
2008-01-06 8:08 ` Brian Swetland
2008-01-06 8:08 ` Jeff King
2008-01-06 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-07 1:55 ` Jeff King
2008-01-07 2:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-07 3:06 ` Jeff King
2008-01-07 18:37 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-07 3:05 ` Jay Soffian
2008-01-07 5:01 ` David Brown
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