Re: Fwd: git rm

So if I do:

touch abc
git add abc


And after that I do:

git rm abc


Can you agree that there is an asymmetry of two commands vs. one? Git
add only touches the files in .git/ and git rm ALSO affects the
working tree...

Is "git rm" or "git rm --cache" used more often in practice?


Peter

On 7 July 2016 at 05:35, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 06:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

quoted

Peter [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I am a lightweigt git user so by all means not a reference, but I was
wondering why exactly does "git rm" also delete the file (remove it
from the working tree). I see it as an unintended behaviour as git is
written in a way that it preserves the most data.

The data is still preserved.  You can restore it with "git checkout HEAD
<file>".

Assuming the file is present in HEAD, of course. But if it is not, then
git should (and does) complain and ask for "-f".

-Peff