Ah, ok, I see now. But are there any other situations where the "-f" switch is not needed? Peter On 10 July 2016 at 12:57, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter <peter.mx@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> So if I do: >> >> touch abc >> git add abc >> >> >> And after that I do: >> >> git rm abc > error: the following file has changes staged in the index: > abc > (use --cached to keep the file, or -f to force removal) > > 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