Don't always require working tree for git-rm

This allows to do git rm --cached -r directory, instead of
git ls-files -z directory | git update-index --remove -z --stdin.
This can be particularly useful for git-filter-branch users.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin-rm.c b/builtin-rm.c
index bca2bd97036fdaf2e2bf99e308ba62e1acf4d9e8..a3d25e6a571584c486d252c5a8e2b182f3da86e3 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-rm.c
+++ b/builtin-rm.c
@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        if (!argc)
                usage_with_options(builtin_rm_usage, builtin_rm_options);
 
+       if (!index_only)
+               setup_work_tree();
+
        pathspec = get_pathspec(prefix, argv);
        seen = NULL;
        for (i = 0; pathspec[i] ; i++)

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index eb31c93d0f70abdd6230d72f555adbfb121df613..4a250f7e8b84f2334c84daaf93baa0fe1f0ca344 100644 (file)
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
                { "rev-list", cmd_rev_list, RUN_SETUP },
                { "rev-parse", cmd_rev_parse, RUN_SETUP },
                { "revert", cmd_revert, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
-               { "rm", cmd_rm, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
+               { "rm", cmd_rm, RUN_SETUP },
                { "runstatus", cmd_runstatus, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
                { "shortlog", cmd_shortlog, RUN_SETUP | USE_PAGER },
                { "show-branch", cmd_show_branch, RUN_SETUP },