From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>,
Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git rm" seems to do recursive removal even without "-r"
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 05:07:12 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710080502050.19600@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy3oms22q.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
> > ... so if, in the kernel source
> > tree, i ran:
> >
> > $ git rm \*.c
> >
> > i would end up removing *all* 25,569 "*.c" files in the kernel source
> > repository.
>
> Yes, as that is exactly what the command line asks Git to do.
so if i wanted git to remove, say, all files named "Makefile*" from
everywhere in the linux kernel source tree, the (dry run) command
would be:
$ git rm -n Makefile\*
is that it? let's try that:
$ git rm -n Makefile\*
rm 'Makefile'
$
oops.
rday
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-07 18:39 Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-07 19:04 ` Todd Zullinger
2017-10-07 19:12 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-07 19:29 ` Jeff King
2017-10-07 19:32 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-07 19:38 ` Jeff King
2017-10-07 19:43 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-07 21:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-10-07 21:40 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-07 21:44 ` Paul Smith
2017-10-07 21:55 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-08 4:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-08 9:07 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2017-10-08 11:37 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-10-08 11:56 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-08 12:23 ` Martin Ågren
2017-10-08 12:39 ` René Scharfe
2017-10-08 12:45 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-10 11:52 ` Heiko Voigt
2017-10-11 8:31 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-08 14:32 ` Paul Smith
2017-10-08 18:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-10-08 19:44 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-08 20:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-10-09 17:52 ` Jeff King
2017-10-10 8:36 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-10 8:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-10 12:19 ` Paul Smith
2017-10-10 19:44 ` Robert P. J. Day
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