Re: Deleting files

["Shak" <sshaikh@hotmail.com>]

"Shak" <sshaikh@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:g2r19e$s6e$1@ger.gmane.org...
> Hi,
>
> Are files supposed to be continually tracked after commiting after 
> deleting them?
>
> git status reports that files have been deleted as expected (they're not 
> there anymore). I commit as wanted. I do some more work, but then git 
> status still reports that the same files have been deleted. As such I have 
> a historical list of "deleted" files that I may have been working on 
> previously and had committed.
>
> I have to run git rm to erase these entries, but I've no idea how that 
> affects my history.
>
> Shouldn't git add/commit remember that a file has been deleted previously?
>
> On a related note, once I do git rm on one of these files, git status 
> sometimes reports that these rm'd files have been renamed to a new one 
> instead! What's going on? :(

To be clear on the last point, git seems to be incorrectly detecting that 
I've copied (sometimes to the same directory) and renamed files. What's the 
difference anyway? And is there anyway to override it's overzelaous 
assumptions?

Shak