Re: [RFC] git rm -u

Eric James Michael Ritz [off-list ref] writes:

On 01/19/2013 04:49 PM, Antoine Pelisse wrote:

quoted

I think `git add -u` would be closer. It would stage removal of
files, but would not stage untracked files.  It would stage other
type of changes though.

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Tomas Carnecky

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Does `git add -A` do what you want?

Thank you Tomas and Antoine.  Both of these commands do what I want:
stage deleted files on the index.  But does the idea of a `git rm -u`
still sound useful since these commands also stage changes besides
deleted files?

Even though I am not sure how often I would use it myself, "reflect
only the removals in the working tree to the index, but exclude any
other kind of changes" might turn out to be a useful addition to the
toolchest in certain cases.

I however am not yet convinced that "git rm -u" is a good way to
express the feature at the UI.  "git add -u" is "update the index
with modification and removal but ignore new files because we won't
know if they are garbage or assets".  What the same "-u" option
means in the context of "git rm" is not very clear, at least to me.