builtin-rm: Add a --force flag

This adds a --force flag to git-rm, making it somewhat easier for
subversion people to switch.

Signed-off-by: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index 4d0c495bc3ecb5482165a46956efe73dfdc5ee72..5afb1e7428126c79171cf7e7b1fb027e1de64c86 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-rm - Remove files from the working tree and from the index
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git rm' [-f] [-n] [-r] [--cached] [--ignore-unmatch] [--quiet] [--] <file>...
+'git rm' [-f | --force] [-n] [-r] [--cached] [--ignore-unmatch] [--quiet] [--] <file>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ OPTIONS
        but this requires the `-r` option to be explicitly given.
 
 -f::
+--force::
        Override the up-to-date check.
 
 -n::

diff --git a/builtin-rm.c b/builtin-rm.c
index ee8247b08cd007f73d5dfffa560a9efe33d327b9..0ed26bb8f10062185b9476815f17c2902461e47d 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-rm.c
+++ b/builtin-rm.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static struct option builtin_rm_options[] = {
        OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only),
        OPT__QUIET(&quiet),
        OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "cached",         &index_only, "only remove from the index"),
-       OPT_BOOLEAN('f', NULL,             &force,      "override the up-to-date check"),
+       OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force",          &force,      "override the up-to-date check"),
        OPT_BOOLEAN('r', NULL,             &recursive,  "allow recursive removal"),
        OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-unmatch", &ignore_unmatch,
                                "exit with a zero status even if nothing matched"),