Re: deleting invisible files in git

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Graham Percival wrote:

> I can see capital letters; besides,
> 
> tsubasa:~/usr/src/lilypond/input/lsr/spacing gperciva$ ls Page*
> ls: Page*: No such file or directory

Please try without wildcards. IIRC these are not case sensitive, strangely 
enough. So,

        ls Page-layout-twopass.ly

should return "Page-layout-twopass.ly".

> > Okay, this is a little obscure, but can easily be done:
> > 
> >     git rm --cached <filename>
> > 
> > (This _needs_ Git 1.5.0). You need to say "--cached" so it does not
> > actually remove the file in the working directory (since you can access it
> > using the other spelling).
> 
> Argh, fink only has 1.4.4.4.  Oh well.  :(

You can -- for now -- use the more obscure parts of git:

        git update-index --force-remove Page-layout-twopass.ly

Again, please check with `git status` that all is well.

Ciao,
Dscho