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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
>> > I'd like to remove a file and commit the removal while
>> > leaving out other changes in repository/index.
>> > 
>> > $git rm kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch
>> > rm 'kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch'
>> > 
>> > $ git commit kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch
>> > error: pathspec 'kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch' did not match
>> > any file(s) known to git.
>> > Did you forget to 'git add'?
>> > 
>> > A similiar thing works with "git add".
>> 
>> Any ideas? Can this be done with git?
>
> Did you actually try the "--" thing I suggested in 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/35699/?
>
> Besides, I just tested with current "next": 
>
> $ git commit kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch
> Created commit 89a5bb5ac16fb8be9b6e061284e191cafb3e4da2
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 a234

The difference is Michael did "git rm" to explicitly tell git to
forget about that path, while you used the vanilla "/bin/rm".

Personally I never saw the point of having "git rm".  Maybe we
should remove it to prevent this confusion from happening.