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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: On removing files and "git-rm is pointless"
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:29:13 -0500 (EST)
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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.