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 bca2bd9..a3d25e6 100644
--- a/builtin-rm.c
+++ b/builtin-rm.c
@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@
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 eb31c93..4a250f7 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
{ "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 },
