Recursive remove

Hello,

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?

Regards,

Peter

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:21:19 +0100
"Peter Eriksen" [off-list ref] wrote:

Hello,

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?

Hi Peter,

The following is a bit more concise but not better than your version:

rm -rf Some/Dir
git ls-files -z -d Some/Dir | git-update-index -z --remove --stdin
git commit -m "Remove directory Some/Dir"


Git could stand to have an "rm" command to make this easier.


Sean