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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: On removing files and "git-rm is pointless"
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:43:15 -0800
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To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>> 
>> > If it doesn't match HEAD, we can't get it back as easily, so maybe that's 
>> > the case when we want to have "git rm -f filename".
>> 
>> Hmph.  Wouldn't this lossage the same as the lossage we are
>> removing the "safety valve" for, when "commit --only" jumps the
>> index?
>
> Losing an intermediate file state is much less severe than losing the 
> latest file state I would think.

Very true indeed.