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"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:

> But won't the same problem appear with
>
> rm file
> git-update-index file
> git-commit file

If you do index manipulation yourself using update-index, do not
jump the index at the commit time using "git commit file..."
syntax; the sole purpose of that misfeature is to handhold
CVS-braindamaged people who want to make per-path partial
commits.

We bend backwards to allow index-jumping for most cases in
git-commit, and you found that "most" is not "all".  That's a
great news.

I am not interested to make it "all" myself -- if somebody else
does it, that is fine, though ;-).