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At 16:04 +0200 10 Jul 2020, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>On Jul 10 2020, Tom Browder wrote:
>
>> If the existing file has been modified, with 'rm'  the '--cached'
>> option doesn't remove it from Git
>> unless one uses the '-f' option with it.
>
>It doesn't?  Worksforme.

It needs to be forced iff the cached version doesn't match either what's 
in HEAD or on the file system. So when there's potential to lose work 
similar to other situations which require specifying a force option.

     $ git rm --cached a
     error: the following file has staged content different from both the
     file and the HEAD:
         a
     (use -f to force removal)