Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > >> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >>>> I'd like to remove a file and commit the removal while >>>> leaving out other changes in repository/index. >>>> >>>> $git rm kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch >>>> rm 'kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch' >>>> >>>> $ git commit kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch >>>> error: pathspec 'kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch' did not match >>>> any file(s) known to git. >>>> Did you forget to 'git add'? >>>> >>>> A similiar thing works with "git add". >>> >>> Any ideas? Can this be done with git? >> >> Did you actually try the "--" thing I suggested in >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/35699/? >> >> Besides, I just tested with current "next": >> >> $ git commit kernel_patches/fixes/ib_verbs_warning_fix.patch >> Created commit 89a5bb5ac16fb8be9b6e061284e191cafb3e4da2 >> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) >> delete mode 100644 a234 > > The difference is Michael did "git rm" to explicitly tell git to > forget about that path, while you used the vanilla "/bin/rm". > > Personally I never saw the point of having "git rm". Maybe we > should remove it to prevent this confusion from happening. Does this happen with new git-rm, which removes file also from working directory? BTW. you probably can do this with git-update-index... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html