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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt index 8c0554f971..262436b7b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ git-rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git rm' [-f | --force] [-n] [-r] [--cached] [--ignore-unmatch] [--quiet] [--] <file>... DESCRIPTION @@ -78,8 +79,7 @@ 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 -using `git rm {apostrophe}d{asterisk}{apostrophe}` and -`git rm {apostrophe}d/{asterisk}{apostrophe}`, as the former will +using `git rm 'd*'` and `git rm 'd/*'`, as the former will also remove all of directory `d2`. REMOVING FILES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE FILESYSTEM @@ -134,9 +134,24 @@ use the following command: 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 +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 +or not - to protect the submodule's history. + +A submodule is considered up-to-date when the HEAD is the same as +recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked +files that aren't ignored are present in the submodules work tree. +Ignored files are deemed expendable and won't stop a submodule's work +tree from being removed. + EXAMPLES -------- -git rm Documentation/\*.txt:: +`git rm Documentation/\*.txt`:: Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories. + @@ -144,7 +159,7 @@ Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory. -git rm -f git-*.sh:: +`git rm -f git-*.sh`:: Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`. |