• Registered: 2012-03-05
  • Posts: 95

Topic: Git question

Hope it's okay to ask a Git question here.

I'd like to know if I always need to run a Git rm command whenever I want to delete (or have already deleted) a file.

This is what happened that makes me wonder:

In Rails, I deleted the default public/index.html file, then updated my routes so that root points to a different file.
Then, after several other changes, did:

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "new home page"
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku open

When the browser opened, I still saw the default rails home page. So I did a git rm index.html, and repeated the above. This time my home page was what I wanted.

I was glad that the problem was solved, but left wondering about why I had to take the extra step of doing a git rm to remove a file that I had already deleted. Is this normal?

Last edited by Brian71 (2012-04-09 09:31:20)

  • Registered: 2012-04-09
  • Posts: 2

Re: Git question

u only need to do a git rm if you have committed the file to your repository.
If you have not committed yet then a rm will suffice because it is not being tracked.