Hello! The documentation for git-rm at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rm.html says EXAMPLES git-rm Documentation/\*.txt Removes all *.txt files from the index that are under the Documentation directory and any of its subdirectories. The files are not removed from the working tree. I think that this should say git-rm --cached Documentation/\*.txt ? Otherwise I don't see why it wouldn't remove the files from the working tree. If this is a documentation error, it could cause some bad problems for people who follow it. - 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