Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add builtin "git rm" command

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

I think the new behaviour is strictly an improvement, but perhaps more 
importantly, it is _different_. As a special case, the semantics are 
identical for the single-file case (which is the only one our test-suite 
seems to test).

The other question is what to do with leading directories. The old "git 
rm" script didn't do anything, which is somewhat inconsistent. This one 
will actually clean up directories that have become empty as a result of 
removing the last file, but maybe we want to have a flag to decide the 
behaviour?

I too think these are improvements.  Thanks for the patch.

BTW, this needed another "evil merge" into "next", so this time
I made a separate evil merge branch that I speculated as a
possibly better alternative approach in an earlier message.