Add builtin "git rm" command

2006-05-20T00:28:33Z

This changes semantics very subtly, because it adds a new atomicity guarantee. In particular, if you "git rm" several files, it will now do all or nothing. The old shell-script really looped over the removed files one by one, and would basically randomly fail in the middle if "-f" was used and one of the files didn't exist in the working directory. This C builtin one will not re-write the index after each remove, but instead remove all files at once. However, that means that if "-f" is used (to also force removal of the file from the working directory), and some files have already been removed from the workspace, it won't stop in the middle in some half-way state like the old one did. So what happens is that if the _first_ file fails to be removed with "-f", we abort the whole "git rm". But once we've started removing, we don't leave anything half done. If some of the other files don't exist, we'll just ignore errors of removal from the working tree. This is only an issue with "-f", of course. I think the new behaviour is strictly an improvement, but perhaps more importantly, it is _different_. As a special case, the semantics are identical for the single-file case (which is the only one our test-suite seems to test). The other question is what to do with leading directories. The old "git rm" script didn't do anything, which is somewhat inconsistent. This one will actually clean up directories that have become empty as a result of removing the last file, but maybe we want to have a flag to decide the behaviour? Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

git-rm: Fix to properly handle files with spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.

2006-02-23T01:10:42Z

New tests are added to the git-rm test case to cover this as well. Signed-off-by: Carl Worth Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Add new git-rm command with documentation

2006-02-23T01:10:42Z

This adds a git-rm command which provides convenience similar to git-add, (and a bit more since it takes care of the rm as well if given -f). Like git-add, git-rm expands the given path names through git-ls-files. This means it only acts on files listed in the index. And it does act recursively on directories by default, (no -r needed as in the case of rm itself). When it recurses, it does not remove empty directories that are left behind. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

git/git-rm.sh, branch master

Add builtin "git rm" command

git-rm: Fix to properly handle files with spaces, tabs, newlines, etc.

Add new git-rm command with documentation