I am learning Git and am unable to understand under what condition the -f flag is used while issuing the “git rm” command. Please explain a scenario where rm -f would be required instead of rm only?
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I am learning Git and am unable to understand under what condition the -f flag is used while issuing the “git rm” command. Please explain a scenario where rm -f would be required instead of rm only?
Explanation:
The
-fis used to remove a file if the file is not up to date with your last checked out commit. It is to prevent you from removing a file that you have made changes to, but have not yet checked them in.Example:
You check out commit 0a12d4 that contains the file sample.txt. Before you change any files, you could remove the sample.txt with
git rm sample.txt. However, once you make a change to sample.txt, you would need to usegit rm -f sample.txtto remove the file