Re: Recursive remove

"Peter Eriksen" [off-list ref] 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?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:37:54 -0800
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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

perhaps?

Sigh, its been a humbling morning all around; can't get easier than that.

Sean

sean [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:37:54 -0800
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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

perhaps?

Sigh, its been a humbling morning all around; can't get easier than that.

Perhaps this is because I did not do a good job in
Documentation/git-commit.txt.  Something like this?

-- >8 --
Documentation: git-commit -a

A bit more elaboration on what "update all paths" means.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index e0ff74f..e35984d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt

@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ information.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 -a|--all::
-	Update all paths in the index file.
+	Update all paths in the index file.  The command with this flag
+	notices files that have been modified and deleted, but new files
+	you have not told about git are not affected.
 
 -c or -C <commit>::
 	Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message