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"Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk> writes:

> A way to recursively remove a directory /Some/Dir/ is a follows:
>
>    git ls-files -z Some/Dir >rmfiles
>    git update-index -z --force-remove --stdin <rmfiles
>    git commit -a -m "Remove directory Some/Dir"
>    rm -rf Some/Dir
>
> What is a better way to do it?

	$ rm -fr Some/Dir; git commit -a -m 'Remove'

perhaps?