Getting "git rm" to work

Aug
05
2010
3
By David Luhman

I thought I could remove files from Git pretty easily with essentially :


  $ git rm myfile.php
  $ git commit -m "Removing a file"

But I was getting this error upon commit : "Could not open input file myfile.php"

This is how I got it to work. The Git Cheat Sheet (http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git) described this as "Commit the absence of myfile.txt to the project"


  $ git rm --cached myfile.php
  $ git commit -m "Removing a file"
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There are 3 Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 20:06

do you have a pre-commit hook?

i have a php pre commit hook that was breaking it

changed

exec("php -l " . escapeshellarg($file), $lint_output, $return);

to
$return = 0;
if (file_exists($file)) {
exec("php -l " . escapeshellarg($file), $lint_output, $return);
}

Submitted by David Luhman on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 15:52

Yes, there's a good chance I had a pre-commit hook when I ran into this. Most of my PHP projects do a "php -l" before the commit -- apparently just like you!

Thanks!

Submitted by David Luhman on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 14:56

Yes, per the comment above, adding the check for file existence to my pre-commit hook script removed this error.

Here is where my pre-commit hook is :

/.git/hooks/pre-commit-php-l.php