From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add" Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:06:36 +0200 Message-ID: <200908132306.37947.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <200908121726.52121.luke-jr@utopios.org> <1250133624-2272-1-git-send-email-luke-jr+git@utopios.org> <7vy6pna4lu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Luke Dashjr , To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 13 23:07:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MbhWC-0000Zh-1C for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:07:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756308AbZHMVHQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:07:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756294AbZHMVHQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:07:16 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.237]:59241 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755143AbZHMVHP (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:07:15 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.237) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.1.375.2; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:07:15 +0200 Received: from thomas.localnet (84.74.103.245) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.1.375.2; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:06:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.27.25-0.1-default; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <7vy6pna4lu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Chould you refresh my memory a bit? > > In what circumstance is "rm --ignore-unmatch" useful to begin with? Not sure about add --ignore-unmatch myself, but there's even an example of rm --ignore-unmatch in man git-filter-branch, along the lines of git filter-branch --index-filter ' rm --ignore-unmach some_file_that_shouldnt_be_in_history ' -- --all -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch