git-rm: do not fail on already removed file.

Often the user would do "/bin/rm foo" before telling git, but
then want to tell git about it.  "git rm foo" however would fail
because it cannot unlink(2) foo.

Treat ENOENT error return from unlink(2) as if a successful
removal happened.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/builtin-rm.c b/builtin-rm.c
index 5b078c41943c9ce0ff1983896e8ad6ae38705f60..d81f289c3c28fa9afbc99facf6ea81b68306a46d 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-rm.c
+++ b/builtin-rm.c
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ static int remove_file(const char *name)
        char *slash;
 
        ret = unlink(name);
+       if (ret && errno == ENOENT)
+               /* The user has removed it from the filesystem by hand */
+               ret = errno = 0;
+
        if (!ret && (slash = strrchr(name, '/'))) {
                char *n = xstrdup(name);
                do {
@@ -204,7 +208,7 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                return 0;
 
        /*
-        * Then, unless we used "--cache", remove the filenames from
+        * Then, unless we used "--cached", remove the filenames from
         * the workspace. If we fail to remove the first one, we
         * abort the "git rm" (but once we've successfully removed
         * any file at all, we'll go ahead and commit to it all: