From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phlip Subject: fuggedabadit Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:51:25 -0700 Message-ID: <4A3481CD.7050602@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 14 06:53:01 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 1MFhiG-0002Kq-B8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:53:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750996AbZFNEv2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:51:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750961AbZFNEv1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:51:27 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f187.google.com ([209.85.222.187]:48027 "EHLO mail-pz0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938AbZFNEv0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:51:26 -0400 Received: by pzk17 with SMTP id 17so1321732pzk.33 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:51:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ckb1d4PnTN7K+OO9npzbFJAkxXwqcRxz3nVBTQCYmY4=; b=IU88lAg97E0tCZUn1OLb8YzD9YvEdXYqHWKJ5Bd+s2SKvd8XCeFPFxfil523AN0yM5 zEKxNOldAh02O/sXjQ4oWj46UJAlGcTIxAF7OytcrIwFPUUJHZCWH3bNeTcWQ5Y9fYsx jy+7EZYuc+Y442JLS6J0qU8phZvBhdvWZcwzk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qFYSCq+q0UGHH0MmKCwWY+49TeM7SYN2uIitKlyCCckIyihb3RlOndr3tcxZZk894f iFk/GczYXXggFnVpASvtA0wSNnAygjvxEYHYzr6IqA0Qb02YARAQkt9bzlVmjCR21OTX mP0u9LineOe37v+Ayg7HZbe+5JPsxe1Mhyib4= Received: by 10.142.213.5 with SMTP id l5mr2170506wfg.189.1244955088223; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.108? (adsl-76-212-161-118.dsl.sndg02.sbcglobal.net [76.212.161.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm2747024wff.11.2009.06.13.21.51.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:51:27 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Gitsters: El Goog has the wrong answer for the question "how do I forget about a file?" Someone cheerfully directed me to git rm, as equivalent to svn rm. I don't need the actual file to go away. (I, uh, mumble, checked in too much when starting out, and now git commit is slooow.) How do I tell git to forget about a file, but leave on my hard drive? -- Phlip (BTW, the 1980s called - they want their mailing list software back!;)