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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-05 21:13:21 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-05 21:13:21 -0800 |
| commit | 076ffcc834f02a4f11d7f4fe8825be3b065020ff (patch) | |
| tree | 6f5fa28df80c60c9b0a1dfab028d3db33ae22fa0 /git-rm.txt | |
| parent | 3f2ed6f9b744f05cf2ad32b0c0c80aa149d9fdcb (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-076ffcc834f02a4f11d7f4fe8825be3b065020ff.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.8.1.2-545-g2f19ad
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diff --git a/git-rm.txt b/git-rm.txt index 262436b7b..92bac27e0 100644 --- a/git-rm.txt +++ b/git-rm.txt @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ OPTIONS ------- <file>...:: Files to remove. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can be given to - remove all matching files. If you want git to expand + remove all matching files. If you want Git to expand file glob characters, you may need to shell-escape them. A leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to remove `dir/file1` and `dir/file2`) can be @@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ DISCUSSION The <file> list given to the command can be exact pathnames, file glob patterns, or leading directory names. The command -removes only the paths that are known to git. Giving the name of -a file that you have not told git about does not remove that file. +removes only the paths that are known to Git. Giving the name of +a file that you have not told Git about does not remove that file. File globbing matches across directory boundaries. Thus, given two directories `d` and `d2`, there is a difference between @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached Submodules ~~~~~~~~~~ Only submodules using a gitfile (which means they were cloned -with a git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work +with a Git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work tree, as their repository lives inside the .git directory of the superproject. If a submodule (or one of those nested inside it) still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will fail - no matter if forced @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ EXAMPLES `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories. + Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this -example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames +example; this lets Git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory. `git rm -f git-*.sh`:: |