[PATCH] Add 'rm -f' equivalent to 'git rm' example of filter-branch --index-filter
From: Jacob Helwig <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:09
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <redacted> --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 451950b..1fbbbb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt@@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD. +As with using `rm filename`, `git rm --cached filename` will fail +if the file is absent from the tree of a commit. If it is not important +whether the file is already absent from the tree, you can use +`git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename` instead. + To rewrite the repository to look as if `foodir/` had been its project root, and discard all other history:
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