"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > if commitcount > 1: > do_or_die("rm `git ls-tree --name-only HEAD`") This will fail on file names containing whitespace or glob meta characters. Better use "git rm -qr ." here. You don't have to care about the index since you are doing "git add -A" later anyway. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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