"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > But won't the same problem appear with > > rm file > git-update-index file > git-commit file If you do index manipulation yourself using update-index, do not jump the index at the commit time using "git commit file..." syntax; the sole purpose of that misfeature is to handhold CVS-braindamaged people who want to make per-path partial commits. We bend backwards to allow index-jumping for most cases in git-commit, and you found that "most" is not "all". That's a great news. I am not interested to make it "all" myself -- if somebody else does it, that is fine, though ;-). - 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