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| author | Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> | 2009-02-12 10:01:10 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-02-12 15:44:56 -0800 |
| commit | 49bde7533681f5e4a80402af465bd7a28556266e (patch) | |
| tree | 40949c205960efd0f2ee723a9f68efdefe199284 /Documentation | |
| parent | 222b1673860bba6c75895ce3e2d1467fb878fa2a (diff) | |
| download | git-49bde7533681f5e4a80402af465bd7a28556266e.tar.gz | |
Add 'rm -f' equivalent to 'git rm' example of filter-branch --index-filter
Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 451950bab6..1fbbbb4025 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: |