Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 451950b..1fbbbb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD. +As with using `rm filename`, `git rm --cached filename` will fail +if the file is absent from the tree of a commit. If it is not important +whether the file is already absent from the tree, you can use +`git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename` instead. + To rewrite the repository to look as if `foodir/` had been its project root, and discard all other history: -- 1.6.1.1 -- 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
