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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 5 |
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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: |