Peter <peter.mx@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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>". 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